Do you instant message at work? slack/gchat/etc?

[hipstermike]

We rely tons on slack. I feel like instant messaging is better than meetings and email for sure.

Do you instant message internally at work? Is it beneficial? Do you have discussions there too?

 

[you go boy]

we have Skype but I barely use it.. I don't talk too much to my coworkers and if I do it's just one really which is not all the time

 

[ricerocket1]

Yes. Work use Slack mainly. But other folks still use skype for business -_-


Slack have a good feature threading a conversation specially in a public / group room where you can isolate the discussion and with you or whoever you choose to. A lot API with it helps

 

[Top Boy]

Yeah, we just transitioned from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.

Teams is dope, screen sharing during meetings is a breeze, audio is crisp, and you can send gifs.

All of the younger consultants at my job myself included use it all day every day, mostly just sending gifs.

 

[Fozz]

Work utilizes Skype for Business, but I rarely log on.

 

[BigDom45]

All the time. Nothing crazy can be said on there though.

 

[frshstunna]

They sent an email out about using Skype last week but so far nobody be on there

 

[iamdef]

We also have Skype, I prefer email for the paper trail on communications

 

[hipstermike]

Yes. Work use Slack mainly. But other folks still use skype for business -_-


Slack have a good feature threading a conversation specially in a public / group room where you can isolate the discussion and with you or whoever you choose to. A lot API with it helps

feels like your own private IRC but with a ton of features

i might buy some of their stock

 

[Based Jesus]

feels like your own private IRC but with a ton of features

i might buy some of their stock

Been using Slack for a few years now. They're great at helping me procrastinate by messaging all day long. Not so good at making me money so far...

 

[wr]

We also have Skype, I prefer email for the paper trail on communications

Skype for business here.


Typically all the Skype convos are saved in an Outlook folder.

I try my best not to talk too much in their. Too much interoffice drama. I've traveled to different offices across country and ppl will hit me up on Skype to chat from everywhere so I go busy mode all day.

 

[kicks2024]

We use Mattermost now for about 4 or 5 months

 

[bruce negro]

We use Mattermost now for about 4 or 5 months

Oh interesting, did you have experience working with Slack beforehand?

 

[oidreez]

We use Skype for business. People use it to chat all day. Also business gets discussed

 

[nawghtyhare]

Yeah, we just transitioned from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.

Teams is dope, screen sharing during meetings is a breeze, audio is crisp, and you can send gifs.

All of the younger consultants at my job myself included use it all day every day, mostly just sending gifs.

yoooo so did we..........
who u work for

 

[Top Boy]

yoooo so did we..........
who u work for

Of the entire company as far as I'm aware...

I am the only black male. Prolly not

 

[AZwildcats]

We use Slack at our company, really fully featured chat app. A lot of us work remotely so we rely on it heavily to interact and meet with each other. Love the keyboard shortcuts on the Mac client.

The downside of being instantly accessible is that annoying people are just as annoying on Slack as they are in real life. I have had to set myself to away and turn off notifications on a few different occasions.

We use Zoom for our customer meetings and it is another great tool. Between Zoom and Slack I haven't used Skype since 2018

 

[elpablo21]

Yeah, we just transitioned from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.

Teams is dope, screen sharing during meetings is a breeze, audio is crisp, and you can send gifs.

All of the younger consultants at my job myself included use it all day every day, mostly just sending gifs.

Same here

Younger folks use Teams at my gig. Older folks and non-tech saavy staff use our outdated EMR to send messages. Made sense to use for patient sensitive info but they'd use it for everything

It took years just to transition ppl to even fully use Outlook for emails