We use Slack at our commercial construction company to keep communication flowing between the field and the office, and it’s been a huge help. It’s super easy to stay connected, share updates, and make sure everyone’s on the same page. We also use separate channels to manage specific jobs and even handle things like PTO requests. It keeps everything organized and makes collaboration so much smoother. Slack is definitely a must-have for staying efficient and connected!
Pros
Communication amongst your team
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for sending a message to everyone in a specific channel. We have also used it for polls.
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Account Manager in Finance and Accounting (Construction company, 11-50 employees)
My company uses Slack to have immediate and direct communication within each department daily, Monday -Friday. Slack eliminates the need for emails, text messages, and other tools that add bloat to employee workflows. By utilizing Slack, we have seen a significant increase in productivity and communication has skyrocketed.
Pros
Direct employee to employee communication
Organizing conversations
Slackbot to create and send reminder for repetitive tasks
Matterbot for birthday and reward notification
Cons
The ability to share larger file sizes is not working well
The app should have big-size feature to allow sharing and effective communication inside the chat channel for efficient performance
robust CRM integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Based on my hands on experience, Slack is the best chat app for big and small company. It is user friendly with interactive features.
Maybe Slack can integrate calendar schedule to sync inside the tool for convenient and one stop shop for all meetings tracking.
We use Slack for internal communication between all employees of the company. Occasionally, we have also given access to external collaborators in order to have quick communication with them.
Pros
Easy and fast to install it
Public and private Channels
Gifs and icons
Cons
Video-meetings not always works fine
An easy way for deleting old channels
Admin panel
Likelihood to Recommend
I highly recommend it for startups and small companies, because is faster and cheaper than others.
Being able to chat between one or multiple people within the organization around the country. It is easy to chat, call or even video chat.
Sharing ideas with each other in real time helps with ensuring the company gets the best performance while being distant from each of the sites. Leadership can share information while others are away from the office.
Pros
Chat
Phone
Video
Cons
None
Likelihood to Recommend
Any organization can benefit from the use as it allows the employees to communicate across the distance and be able to have f phone or video conversations to ensure the work is done right.
We are a remote company that uses Slack daily for internal communications and building our company culture. Without slack, we would miss out on the opportunity to discuss work, expand our professional knowledge, and build our community. Although we use it primarily to communicate within our own team, we also have dedicated slack channels to connect with each of our clients.
Pros
Slack is great for organizing conversations via channels.
Slack helps us stay connected to each other and our clients.
Slack has many integrations to enhance the overall experience and make transitioning between various apps seamless.
Cons
It would be nice if slack's HubSpot integration worked in private channels as well as public channels so our internal communications could be logged automatically in HubSpot (we currently have to copy/paste relevant info).
Likelihood to Recommend
I honestly believe Slack fits all business types and models. We have been using their free option, and although our history is limited, we could get on a paid plan if we needed to see farther back. I know there is an improvement coming soon to this. Although I use Slack daily for my main job, I'm also a yoga teacher on the side, and both studios I work for use Slack to organize our communication (one studio did so at my suggestion). It really is an extremely versatile and useful tool for everything.
