Slack’s mission is to “make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.” It seems best-suited for the second goal on that list. Goofing off on Slack is really fun. The chat ...

While Microsoft's Teams configurations acknowledge in-meeting sideline chat is a distraction, it's own research into the practice found that it's actually good from a social perspective.

For "Notify less", Chat delivers notifications and badges for direct mentions, @all mentions, and followed threads. There's also an option to be notified about new threads in threaded rooms.