[cmcginty]

I think people forget what it was like before Slack. Sitting down to 30+ emails by 9:00AM and over 200 in a single day. It was death by email threads and following them was a horrible time suck. Worse off, email was treated like a real time conversation so you were expected to tracking it all the time through the day.

Slack solves a lot of this. The channels are opt in. If you don't want to follow something, just leave. Email is now just for async messages and is less of a distraction during core hours.

If your team or Co uses one channel for all your discussions, then I suggest that you find a way to split out the primary topics in a way that lets everyone filter the wheat from the chaff.

Like others are saying, don't blame the tools for being misused. Ultimately you have to learn how to efficiently communicate with your team and be disciplined enough to know what tool to use for each type of task.

[i_shankar]

Agree 100% on the last para.