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rbnhd_f t1_j7o9evy wrote

Reply to comment by Wzup in TIFU by Sending a Confidential Email to the Entire Company by CriticalCrit

It’s just a joke about shitty corporate email. Though some people at companies without email culture advocate for chat-only, e.g. Slack. I couldn’t personally say.

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AdventurousBench6 t1_j7oaewf wrote

How would a company run on just chat services? How would you keep threads about specific topics from getting lost or be able to refer or forward the email as an attachment as proof that the conversation happened?

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Cohibaluxe t1_j7po9sf wrote

Teams does all this, but it is running emails in the background.

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rbnhd_f t1_j7ob777 wrote

I’m sure you could find a bunch of info online if you’re actually curious. I’m not sure if you’re actually curious, or just trying to dunk? Happy to engage if the former.

As I said, I don’t personally have experience with it, because I’m not at such a company, but from what I understand it’s pretty common these days for small companies. I have some friends in tech companies who use chat almost exclusively. I’ve also heard a lot of companies say that their company runs on Slack.

Obviously, there are certain things, certain roles, and certain companies that are better with email. I’m sure there are some email things I would miss, but it’s pretty undeniable that many companies run mostly on chat.

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AdventurousBench6 t1_j7obp6d wrote

I really am legitimately curious. I work in HR, so a chat-only communication method blows my mind. I regularly have to keep conversations flagged to refer to later. I forward emails for approval all the time. I use the Print to PDF function to have a pdf copy of resignation letters. My work world revolves around my email. So I guess that's why, to me, it's such an insane concept.

We print out emails for our communications binder for easy access because we need to be able to refer to everything.

I use Outlook for work (and unpopular opinion is that I love Outlook), but I can't imagine solely relying on Teams to talk to people.

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rbnhd_f t1_j7ochzu wrote

I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of anyone who just uses Teams, but I’m sure there are some. I’ve heard a lot of people only use Slack, and I’ve heard from some Meta people that they have their own internal chat, not sure what it is.

I’m at one of the mostly-email companies, though culture seems to be shifting to chat for more things, depending on who you work with.

I think for HR people, it probably wouldn’t work well for anything official. And if you aren’t at a company that already has chat culture (and the tools for it), then it’s a non-starter. But I bet that at the right company, even in HR, you could move a lot of non-critical email into chat.

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AdventurousBench6 t1_j7ocvhv wrote

Yeah, I work in HR for an 1800 person department. I feel like we'll never lose email. But it's cool to know that this is a thing that companies are moving to and is very possible to be used.

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MrWrock t1_j7ocjoi wrote

Messages on slack can become threads if you choose to reply in a thread instead of a channel, so you can have a channel with only top level comments and all discussion in a thread. Everything is just as archivable and searchable as any email client I've used, even more so because I can use the channels as additional search criteria.

I get emails for calendar invites and git notifications, both of which have slack integration. Other than for password recovery and account creation have very little use for email

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AdventurousBench6 t1_j7ocrvk wrote

That's really interesting. There's ways to keep everything in one place and search it. Thanks for your input! I've used Slack twice, and I didn't really understand it.

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