S7E4 - Does Slack Make Work Better?

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Do you use Slack at work? Is your email inbox overflowing? Has any of this tech made our work better?

Workplace tech has grown a lot… from memorandums to fax machines to email to Slack!  So are we all more efficient? Or more overwhelmed?

Workers check their email every 6 minutes. Slack users check it every 5! How do we get anything done? Do we just send messages to show our boss that we’re working? Performative productivity is real!

Chris and Adam arguing about work life for the first time. Tech is collapsing our work and personal lives together. Maybe that’s a good thing? 

Plus, find out what happened a week after IBM introduced email into the company. 

Other questions in this episode…

• Are email and Slack making us more productive?

• Have these communication tools made us more distracted?

• What the heck is the “hyperactive hivemind”?

• How are digital communications affecting our work relationships and emotions?

Plus…

• What does Good Work for Christians working digitally today? 

• What antidotes are there to the hyperactive hivemind of today’s corporate culture?

LINKS

Cal Newport’s book is called A World Without Email

Atlantic’s article is “How Slack Upended the Workplace”. 

Seneca’s book is called Moral Letters

Brian Brock’s book is called Christian Ethics in a Technological Age

Arcade Fire's song "Wasted Hours."

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