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I can think of a few:

- Long form discussion where people think before responding.

- Greater ability to filter/tag/prioritize incoming messages.

- Responses are usually expected within hours, not minutes.

- Email does not have a status indicator that broadcasts whether I am sitting at my desk at that particular moment to every coworker at my company.



1 & 2 are human behaviors, not a technology. You can argue that a tech promotes a behavior but this sounds like a boundaries issue, not a tech issue.

#2 I agree with you, again Slack is not perfect but better than email [my opinion]

#4 Slack has status updates, email does not. So you can choose to turn this off, again boundaries.


Real time chat environments are not conducive to long form communication. I've never been a part of an organization that does long form communication well on slack. You can call it a boundary issue - it doesn't really matter how you categorize the problem, it's definitely a change from email.

Regarding #4, I can't turn off my online/offline indicator, I can only go online or offline. I can't even set the time it takes to go idle. These are intentionally not configurable in slack. I have no desire to have a real time status indicator in the tool I use to communicate with coworkers.




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