How Slack Upended the Workplace - The Atlantic

Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 39:14 In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later. Andela’s model was to recruit and train promising African engineers, then place them at Western tech firms, which meant its employees and clients were scattered across time zones; it desperately needed a way for its distributed workforce to share information and make decisions easily and asynchronously, ideally without subjecting anyone to a deluge of emails. So the company started using Slack. The maker of the chat software ha

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