Slack is a strange beast. Simultaneously a virtual meeting room and water cooler, it somehow encourages members of a distributed work force to socialize and get to know each other while also getting ...

You can customize Slack to make your work day easier (and a bit more fun). We'll tell you where to find them and how to use them. Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She ...

Slack changed the game for asynchronous communication within teams. The messaging tool is a favorite in workplaces worldwide because it does one key thing very well — help teammates stay up to date ...

As U.S. states enter into various stages of lockdown sparked by the novel coronavirus, more and more companies are placing work-from-home mandates on their employees. Those who are used to working ...

When Cal Henderson began working on real-time workplace communication platform Slack in 2013, he never expected people to turn to it for organising family vacations or for sharing their love of ...

Slack rolled back the most abusable aspect of its new feature, which lets you Slack anyone—whether they're in your Slack workspace or not. However, you should still use Connect DMs sparingly or avoid ...

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging tools in collaboration apps like Discord and Slack to distribute and control malware during the remote work era, according to new research. During the ...

If you’ve ever tried a Socratic seminar with your students, or know a colleague who has, this story may sound eerily familiar: After spending the semester shoring up students’ contextual knowledge ...

The logo for Slack hangs outside of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street on June 20, 2019. Disney said it will stop using Slack by the end of its first fiscal quarter. File Photo by John ...

Microsoft does not allow its employees to use Slack, GeekWire's Nat Levy and Todd Bishop reported, citing an internal document. While Microsoft has a rival workplace chat app, Microsoft Teams, the ...