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experimenting with bringing social media into the workplace for years.
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their employees spontaneously started building wikis to document important discoveries and share scientific information.
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They are replacing offices entirely. For people who work in virtual teams, apps like Slack are the workplace.
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But when you work on a virtual team, your choice is either adopt the new software or stop coming to work. In other words, there is no real choice. You have to accept the new platform, regardless of the changes it brings
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The one user survey the company has conducted, however, shows that the majority of Slack administrators believe their teams are up to 40 percent more productive.
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Slack founder Stewart Butterfield has said the boost in productivity comes from eliminating e-mail, but Henderson scoffs at that idea. He thinks Slack teams are more productive because they can communicate better. Plus, they can catch up on what's happened while they were gone because conversations are held in searchable logs. Most of all, he says, Slack is about stepping up productivity by "reducing meetings." That's the "big one," Henderson emphasizes.