Previously when I’ve been at them they where on Slack, more recently they use Teams.
People complain about using Teams compared to Slack but Teams seems good enough for the people paying for Slack to decide to stop using it.
Teams being bundled with Office 365 is a huge value proposition. It’s not a case of who’s best, Slack seems more useful but can never compete with free which Teams is if you already have Office 365 which most large orgs do.
Teams video chat is way better than Slack also which may of helped this past year with working from home.
Agree. At my employer the largest engineering BU has been a zealous user of Slack for many years. Problem is, Slack seat licenses aren't free (and are thus rationed) and TPBT are balking at adding any more Slack seats now that corp IT is aggressively pushing Teams which is apparently free (since the overall corp has grown a dependence on some mishmash of O365). The Slack zealots thus appear to be fighting a (losing) rearguard battle against being forced onto Teams.
Teams tends to be used by bigcorps with tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of staff. Why buy and audit another tool when you already have a Office 365 subscription for the Org.
Slack just isn't good enough. It's better than Teams, somewhat, but that's about it.
(Despite having both Teams and Slack the people at my workplace keep spontaneously switching to Telegram because it's cross-platform and very fast, despite being the worse chat app on every feature metric. Yes, it turns out performance and portability is a huge value proposition for endusers if you actually give them the choice.)
Because it’s not measurable and it’s hard to argue with your CIO that using Slack will save you $xxx000 in productivity costs.
It also doesn’t register a “hair on fire” problem. Slack still has the preconceived notion of being a chat app. And those are not worth the huge investment, compared to problems that truly keep you awake at night ie. Cybersecurity
Previously when I’ve been at them they where on Slack, more recently they use Teams.
People complain about using Teams compared to Slack but Teams seems good enough for the people paying for Slack to decide to stop using it.
Teams being bundled with Office 365 is a huge value proposition. It’s not a case of who’s best, Slack seems more useful but can never compete with free which Teams is if you already have Office 365 which most large orgs do.
Teams video chat is way better than Slack also which may of helped this past year with working from home.