At MongoDB, we were supposed to be on it at all times. It was a continuous source of stress and broken concentration. It is what I left behind most eagerly.
Curiously, Google Chat has not become similarly stress-inducing. Yet. Gmail has become moreso lately, though. At least once a week it manages to conceal an important message.
Since Google Chat works, I expect them to drop it soon.
Google Chat is quite stress-inducing for me as well. Maybe I don't know how to use it properly, but when I get a notification it is so hard for me to find the message that triggered it. Our Google Chat has a lot of messages, so sometimes I could have to scroll through hundreds of messages and thread to find it. It's not highlighted or anything to make it easy, either.
Because I often can't find the message that pinged me, it's extremely stressful. I worry people think I ignored them, when in reality I never saw their message, despite actively looking for it.
At my office, we have mostly only individual chats, plus a customer-crisis chat ("Who's helping XYZ?" "On it"). So if there is any activity, it is relevant, and it actually reduces interruptions, because when we're deep in something, we don't look, and somebody with a question doesn't need to hang about waiting.
At MongoDB, we were supposed to be on it at all times. It was a continuous source of stress and broken concentration. It is what I left behind most eagerly.
Curiously, Google Chat has not become similarly stress-inducing. Yet. Gmail has become moreso lately, though. At least once a week it manages to conceal an important message.
Since Google Chat works, I expect them to drop it soon.