07/06/2022

How to Make Slack Less Annoying

Meanwhile, find out how to be more productive

Russell Handorf says there’s one sound he wouldn’t be surprised to hear in his nightmares: the unmistakable knock brush from the workplace chat app Slack.

Handorf, an engineer at a San Francisco-based tech company, says he gets at least a thousand notifications a day across various Slack channels and workspaces. He’s become so accustomed to receiving Slack notifications that when his wife’s Slack app chimes from home, he has a visceral reaction.

“It’s like the sound of a smoke detector battery going off,” he said.

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