Keep Slack Simple and Safeguard Deep Work in 12 Ways

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Thursday, March 5th, 2026

Keep Slack Simple and Safeguard Deep Work in 12 Ways

Slack was supposed to make work simpler. And in many ways it did. But the always-on nature of real-time messaging has created a new problem: the inability to think without interruption. A 2023 study by Qatalog and Cornell University found that 45% of workers say their digital tools make them less productive, with real-time chat […]

12 Ways to Defend Deep Work in a Slack-Heavy Organization

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2026

12 Ways to Defend Deep Work in a Slack-Heavy Organization

You open Slack and 47 red badges stare back. Your day is a tug-of-war between status pings and the focus time you need for work that actually moves the needle. Here is the good news. You can keep the benefits of real-time chat and still protect serious concentration. The playbook below shows how teams carve […]

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