Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?

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Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?
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There’s nothing less fun than being spammed with non-urgent messages when you’re trying to severance yourself out of work mode. Slack knows this and is working towards a solution—but it can't fix your coworker who ignores your away status.

, the one that signals to everyone in your workspace that you’re available. Rayl is the senior vice president of product at Slack. She’s been at the workplace software company since the early days, back when it was a bitsy gaming company called Tiny Speck.

But Rayl and I weren’t meeting to discuss Slack’s ginormous valuation. We were talking about Away Messages, those modern-day versions of out-to-lunch signs that tell people, even if you’re still online, that you’re not available. Back in May, I wrote a rant in WIRED about how, the kind born of AOL Instant Messenger back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams have some way to tell others that we’re “away,” unavailable, leave me alone. So do our phones.

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