{"id":1136,"date":"2020-05-20T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2020-05-20T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T15:38:16","slug":"slackification-of-office-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/20\/slackification-of-office-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Slackification of Office Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/author\/j-christopher-stanger\/\">j christopher stanger<\/a>&nbsp;on January 15, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"177\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1512\/files\/sites\/1512\/2019\/01\/phone-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Slack emerged on the Mobile Communications scene in 2013 it promised businesses a way for workers to communicate anywhere, anytime, share files, meet, set schedules and track projects. It promised to both improve \u2018productivity\u2019 and provide \u2018efficiencies\u2019. From a mobile culture perspective, apps such as Slack have also become the office \u2018water coolers\u2019 of the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scan through your office communications app \u2013 Slack, Hangouts, Teams \u2013 and you will see chat channels about everything from movies, fitness, food\/wine, humour\u2026 all alongside work related communications. The archeology of this digital chatter mirrors that of face to face communication in most work places. And this is generally pretty healthy. People are communicating regularly with one another socially as they get their business done. Like office talk, the positive side of these apps includes building cohesion in work teams and establishing a positive sense of collegial culture and belonging in a department \u2013 even when \u2018departments\u2019 span time zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, there are some downsides to these communication apps. Some folks have trouble curtailing the chat, feeling the need to respond to every message in a group channel. Some folk lose their filter, snipe and gossip. Mobile messenger apps can also invade personal time outside of work, thus blurring the line between work and personal life. These apps also track chat time from a data perspective, which allows employers to gauge who is being \u2018productive\u2019 and who is spending the company dime on chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately,&nbsp; office chatter has always existed \u2013 the good and the bad. It is just no longer always physically around \u2018the water cooler\u2019. These online tools afford workers an ability to engage in office relationships anywhere and anytime and, actually, all on their own terms, which is in many ways a good thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are a few short articles on this topic that might be interesting to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90236583\/the-slackification-of-work\">https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90236583\/the-slackification-of-work<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magzter.com\/articles\/5731\/226034\/59355ad3a3292\">https:\/\/www.magzter.com\/articles\/5731\/226034\/59355ad3a3292<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2017\/05\/what-has-slack-done-to-the-office.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2017\/05\/what-has-slack-done-to-the-office.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;j christopher stanger&nbsp;on January 15, 2019 When Slack emerged on the Mobile Communications scene in 2013 it promised businesses a way for workers to communicate&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/20\/slackification-of-office-culture\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slackification of Office Culture<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71813,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}