Slack's new DM feature made it off icial — we're all office mates now

March 25, 2021

For a large section of the workforce, it's been a year of completely shifting what work looks like. Working from home, away from the office, has turned everyone you work with into a set of pixels on a screen. That's jumbled what it means to have "office mates," Hayes Brown writes. And now that Slack, the popular messaging app, has made it possible for employees at different companies to message each other, that divide is even weaker.

"It feels weirdly fitting that millennials, many of whom grew up glued to AIM and other chat services, have seen our adult working hours dominated by the now all-too-familiar sound of the Slack messaging app’s alerts," Brown writes. "And with the advent of Slack Connect, we really are all basically office mates in one giant co-working space, for better or for worse."

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