[HN Gopher] How Slack changed Apple's employee culture, with Zoe...
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       How Slack changed Apple's employee culture, with Zoe Schiffer
        
       Author : hadrien01
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2021-09-07 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | diskzero wrote:
       | There have always been listservs/IRC channels/email chains and
       | other electronic and non-electronic means for employees to talk
       | about various subjects. Apple has removed these before and will
       | remove them in the future. A popular whiteboard located near the
       | office of a former VP was removed because a message hurt his
       | feelings. You should never assume that Apple, or any other
       | company, is going to allow employees to use their forums at
       | company expense without the Apple corporate getting involved.
       | 
       | I was long gone before Slack came to Apple. Back then, I avoided
       | becoming involved in any online communication that weren't
       | directly related to my work. I follow this strategy today. I
       | don't participate in Slack channels about anything other than
       | work topics. Maybe I am privileged, or a humorless killjoy that
       | doesn't want to post animated GIFs or photos of my vacation or
       | any of the other non-work relevant topics that make up most of
       | the Slack channels at places I have worked.
       | 
       | Some people are much more vocal about issues and love to discuss
       | these issues on Slack, company mailing lists, etc. This always
       | seems to end poorly for the employees.
       | 
       | If you want to get serious about some of the issue brought up in
       | this article, I can only think of trying to organize and get the
       | NRLB involved, set up collective bargaining and use a lot of the
       | same mechanisms that labor used in other industries.
       | 
       | This solution isn't compelling to me, but as I said before, maybe
       | I am privileged. It is my opinion that Slack channels, online
       | surveys and other forums to vent complaints is not the answer,
       | but I don't what is.
        
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