On what was, for many, the first working day of 2021, Slack, the collaboration tool which — again, for many — is critical to remote working, reported widespread outages. Slack was acquired by Salesforce before the holidays for $27.7 billion.
We are not taking this as an omen for the year ahead, but it means a sticky start for teams reliant on Slack communications.
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Reactions. Slack users consoled themselves by taking to Twitter to express ironic dismay.
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Latest. By 1pm ET, many users were able to connect after refreshing. An outage of almost five hours.
Why we care. For one thing, we are Slack users. For another, this is a reminder — too early in the year — of how reliant we’ve become on digital collaboration in this remote work environment, and how quickly things can go wrong.
This story first appeared on MarTech Today.
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