“Members of our team were burning out. With Slack, work didn’t sleep,” says a manager at a startup that raised a Series A funding round last year. She prefers to stay anonymous, like many employees critical of the addictive, “always on” nature of the communications tool, which is set to list on the stock market in a few weeks’ time.
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