Adding video to Slack’s popular Huddles feature could herald a new digital hang space — or just reinvent the video meetings wheel.
Before remote working
Before remote working became a thing we used to huddle in real life. Free of the formalities of a meeting or the intellectual rigor of a brainstorm, a huddle was spontaneous, productive, and (mostly) good-sported, the workplace equivalent of a basketball team taking a time-out to strategize.
A huddle happened when a colleague strolled by your desk and asked for a quick sec that stretched to five minutes. This was added to Slack last June. And it’s been a success and 44% of all users huddles on a weekly basis.
Now Slack
Now Slack is adding more bells and whistles to Huddles. At its annual conference on the future of work, Slack announced a revamped version of Huddles that claims to transform the humble Huddle into a “coworking space.” And the most significant new feature in that vision for the future of work is … video chat.
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