Sentences with word «slackers»

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

Canadian companies are relative slackers when it comes to going global.

It's sort of interesting how much time everyone spends reading and writing about the habits of really successful people when I can tell you the one thing that sets them apart in one little phrase: They're not slackers.

It is interesting, but actually, some of the slackers are better suited for entrepreneurship than the «smart» people.

Deborah Sawyer, the president of New York — based business consultancy Information Plus, says you can find ways to reward hard workers over the slackers.

«There are slackers who work from home and slackers who find ways of avoiding any real work while in the workplace,» says Burns.

No, we tend view slackers as slackers and top - producers as top - producers.

«Observers seem to think that go - getters exert less effort than slackers, even when they're working on the same task, and even though they themselves rated the assignment as equally difficult.

«Let me ask you this,» says Burns, «Do slackers in the office give top - producers a bad name when they are both working in the office?

They're not the slackers some would like to make them out to be,» said Chris Brown, principal of Hearts & Wallets.

If you look at the company and say «I want us to be a great place to be,» than you need to eliminate the slackers, the laggards and the people who are just putting in his or her time.

I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

Earlier this year, Slack introduced the Slackbot, a chatbot meant to help users navigate the app more easily.

This is the first space - related investment from lead Accel, which held early investments in technology companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify and Venmo.

Thanks to the proliferation of email, texting, social media, and apps like Slack communication has never been easier.

You can request a ride from Lyft via chat (Facebook Messenger and Slack) or voice (Amazon Echo).

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

First, Meyer explains the strategies he uses with his company, Lemonly, which include daily Slack communication, weekly video conferencing and intermittent face - to - face interaction.

The absence of any authorization beyond an existing corporate email has helped Slack quickly spread underground at thousands of companies, on top of plenty of official adoption.

In Slack's vision of the future, it will be totally unnecessary to try to get your inbox to zero every day.

I'm familiar with the various stages of Slack adoption — resistance, curiosity, bafflement, dawning enthusiasm — because we're living it right now at Canadian Business.

For those who slacked on gift shopping for stakeholders over the holiday season, it may not be all bad.

«Embrace asynchronous communication such as Slack, and video messaging with Fika,» Meisel said.

The four - week moving average of continuing claims fell 750, to 1.90 million, the lowest level since Jan. 12, 1974, suggesting a continued decline in labor market slack.

However, just because his two sons are preparing to be the sixth generations of owners doesn't mean they can slack off.

If someone would come up with a Slack skill for Alexa, my world would be complete — granted I'd need to hand out NDAs to the family.»

«Microsoft has been a faceless corporation, while thanks to its cooler image, people have been willing to cut Apple more slack.»

Slack Co-Founder on How Artificial Intelligence Could Eliminate the Need to Check Your Email Ever Again

As workplaces become more digitalized, associates increasingly are relying on email and using tools such as Slack and Skype.

Slack's chatbot, meant to serve as an office assistant, lets you know its limitations when it doesn't understand something: «Sometimes I have an easier time with a few simple keywords.»

Unlike the anti-establishment boomers or the slacker Gen Xers, millennials aren't rebellious, Pearson says.

If the company's AI gains the ability to sort through messages quickly and deliver only the relevant, important information — or simply to deliver it first — Slack is betting it can help eliminate clogged inboxes and make workplaces more efficient.

Freelancers are finding Slack is a great place to build up a profitable referral network and earn some income.

After all, conscientious, promotion - minded workers probably won't ask if they can chuck their phone in their bag and forget about it at home, as they won't want to come off as a slacker.

Instead, companies can now institute a chatbot — like Slack — to act as an internal communication channel, to enable staffers to find out how many holiday days they have left this year.

Media companies of all kinds are using Slack not just to chat about the news, but to collect and aggregate and publish it as well.

For the uninitiated, Slack is a web - based corporate collaboration tool that allows employees to send messages and files to each other, directly or in self - selected groups.

We don't know by exactly which employees and we can't tell for what purposes or to what extent, but Slack is here.

From Facebook to HipChat to Slack to GroupMe (not to mention to a few dozen other platforms), emoji use and consumption is astoundingly high.

On his blog recently entrepreneur Justin Jackson reports that his company's Slack channel is filled with confessions of employees who are struggling to muster the motivation to get much done.

While it might not be good for productivity, there are some upsides to this office slacking, particularly with morale building.

Late last month, Tidal drifted to No. 9 on the iTunes list of top - grossing music apps, right after Slacker Radio.

Plus, chatbots can be integrated into a huge variety of channels, including Facebook Messenger and Slack.

Slack's design and structure means they don't have to ask for permission.

Some might include: Slack, Salesforce, Basecamp, Trello, Harvest, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, Zapier, and many more.

Slack is so familiar that most people seriously underestimate what they could accomplish with it.

Intelligent virtual assistants have gained a lot of prominence in the business world since they were reintroduced by major platforms like Slack, Facebook, and Twitter.

But in the last few weeks, as Slack chatter has seeped into our office conversation, more co-workers have joined, and it's starting to have a real and positive impact on the way we work together.

Even with a fairly small, arbitrary list of large Canadian and American companies, we found plenty of major corporations where Slack is already in use.

And while Inc. eventually settled on the business software darling Slack to wear its 2015 crown, you may have different ideas.