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March 10, 2023

How to be more productive on Slack

Slack can be excellent for helping teams work together, but countless channels and chats can also be incredibly distracting. Here's how to make Slack work for you


Adit Trivedi was scaling the team at the edtech he cofounded, Lingumi — from two employees to 75 across London, Singapore, Taiwan and China — when he realised Slack just wasn’t scaling with it: “As teams scale, so do the number of channels and the time it takes to get up to date. Once you send something in Slack, it’s often lost in the abyss,” he says. 

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