Hi there,

Slack’s stated mission is to “make work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.” 

Do you know what is not simple, pleasant, or more productive? 

Long Slack messages.

Remote Octopus recommends tailoring the length of your communication to the communication tool.

That’s a fancy way of saying: Keep your Slacks short.

Short Slacks will truly “make work life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.” 

A Slack message should not take up an entire computer screen. End of story. (Especially if we’re talking about a 16.2 inch MacBook.)

🐢 Longer Slack messages will slow down your team. They will decrease productivity… and likely make a lot of people very annoyed. Slack messages can also be challenging from a documentation and search perspective (yes, sometimes even with Glean). 

If you have a longer message to share with your team, ask Claude to tighten it up for you into a few sentences and then share that (much shorter) message in Slack. Or consider dropping it into a Google Doc or Confluence page. 

Every now and then will you accidentally post a long Slack message? Sure, it happens to the best of us. 

But longer Slack messages should be an exception, not the rule.

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