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.

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.

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.

Lol, so we have a distribution list that goes to literally every single employee in our department.

We had an employee go off the rails and absolutely shit talk everyone in an email sent to that distribution list. Then, she announced her resignation to the entire department.

She's the reason why only certain people are able to email that distribution list now...

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?