Working From Home For Dummies

Chapter 7

Staying Informed with Notifications, Statuses, and Feeds

IN THIS CHAPTER

Configuring your notifications in Slack

Setting your workplace status

Configuring notifications on specific devices

Checking out activity emails, mentions, and reactions

Odds are, you’ll spend a great deal of time in Slack writing messages and reading others’ responses. You’ll share files with your colleagues, make comments on them, and participate in internal polls. (Ideally, these activities collectively mean that you’ll spend far less time in your inbox.)

But how will you know that someone needs your help or input? Slack sends workspace members notifications about individual and group direct messages (DMs), updates to channels, keywords, and more.

Perhaps you think an unfettered Slack will quickly become overwhelming. That is, you’ll merely transfer your senses of information overload and constant distraction from email to Slack. You’ll just go from chronically checking one application to checking another. What’s the real benefit here?

To be sure, this position is an understandable and fairly common ...