Widespread Slack outage reported
Slack is down just as the remote work year kicks off for many. (back up for many by 1pm ET.)
On what was, for many, the first working day of 2021, Slack, the collaboration tool which — again, for many — is critical to remote working, reported widespread outages. Slack was acquired by Salesforce before the holidays for $27.7 billion.
We are not taking this as an omen for the year ahead, but it means a sticky start for teams reliant on Slack communications.
Reactions. Slack users consoled themselves by taking to Twitter to express ironic dismay.
Latest. By 1pm ET many users were able to connect after refreshing. The outage lasted almost five hours.
Why we care. For one thing, we are Slack users. For another, this is a reminder — too early in the year — of how reliant we’ve become on digital collaboration in this remote work environment, and how quickly things can go wrong.
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