slack
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How to Change Your Default Skin Tone on Slack
Before Apple introduced its racially diverse emoji options back in 2015, people of colour were used to using the ubiquitous skin tone from The Simpsons in our digital communications. Since then though, it’s become fairly standard practice to include multiple skin tone options for the desktop version of many sites we use — including the…
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Yes, Slack Is Down
On Wednesday morning, business communication platform Slack went down globally. At the time of writing, users were still having trouble connecting and sending messages, including us. I guess you’ll have to wait for some of the spicy stories we have in the works.
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Improve Your Work-From-Home Morale With Group Slack Breaks
One of the struggles of working from home—something many more of us are doing for the first time—is a constant pressure to be present. Your Slack dings, and you feel a nagging sense of guilt if you can’t contribute an answer or participate in a discussion. Conversely, it’s easy to get annoyed when people aren’t…
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Search Slack To Discover Office Secrets At Your New Job
When you join a new job, there’s a lot you need to learn beyond the official orientation. You need to figure out your unspoken responsibilities, the relationships between people and departments, and a little of the office gossip. If your workplace uses the chat app Slack, you can pick up a lot of that info…