In response to Hunter Walk’s blog post on the various ails associated with email, bcc, and cc, Primeloop founder Thomas Knoll wrote a post on Medium entitled “I banned email at my company.” You can read the post in its entirety here, and it is truly an insightful reference for the tools that increase productivity – whether distributed or in-house – along with exactly how those tools are used. Not only does email create a barrier to the sharing of information, Google Hangouts/g-chat segments these questions and conversations to the select few who are a part of that conversation at the time. What if a member of the dev team moves over to the sales team? If the information on the hows and whys of the sales team’s decision-making process are readily available and not hidden in email, that team member can get up-to-speed faster and start contributing right away. Knoll mentions that he uses a combination of Slack, which is exploding in popularity in the tech world, and a new product created by a friend, called WorkingOn. Are you working on a product to help deliver productivity and happiness to remote teams? Which products help you most? Let’s start this discussion!
