How Slack employees use Slack On her one-year anniversary, Slack’s CPO reflects on staying agile in uncertain times, why channel-based messaging is superior to email and much more There’s no such thing as too many channels I’ve been working in and leading tech teams for a long time, and bringing people together and aligning them around a common goal is always one of the biggest challenges. So, how do we do this at Slack?...
How sleep trackers can actually ruin your sleep Sleep anxiety Ultimately, this leads to the question of whether knowing about our sleep is actually beneficial to us. After all, one of the best ways to stay awake is totry really hard to go to sleep. It sounds counterintuitive, but we see this clinically in patients with chronic insomnia, for whom excessive pre-occupation with sleep causes anxiety and low mood over sleep loss –leading to further sleeplessness....
How Snapchat, Dropbox, and HubSpot helped employees adjust to COVID-19 The digital shift demands a lo-fi response For real change at work, tie empathy goals to executive compensation HubSpot’s Katie Burke, agrees with Collins’ prioritization. Burke says HubSpot’s core value is empathy, and the company was able to reinforce morale by showing unadulterated understanding this year. Burke adds this includes keeping business matters transparent, especially as the pandemic continues to affect more companies, and by extension, more people....
Recently MXP4, a Paris-based company that specialises in music games, and EMI, one of the worlds largest record labels,announced an agreementthat will allow MXP4 to release revenue generating Facebook games that feature tracks from major EMI artists such as Gorillaz, David Guetta and Lily Allen. This essentially lets MXP4 bypass the usuallicensing issuesthat hamper the creation of such music apps and generally deter developers from creating them, despite the fact that in many cases such games could likely become hugely popular in the social space....
I was browsing through a few of the sites today when I read about a new online campaign that had launched for the California Milk Processor Board that played on the effect PMS can have on men (to promote how milk can help with the effects on PMS). I glanced at it quickly before moving onto theNew York Times, where I read that the same ad campaign had already been pulled, in just a matter of a few days, due to intense backlash in social media....
