Team communication application Slack is providing users a new way to offer feedback to one another.
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“We argued about what symbol we would use – a heart, a star, a thumbs-up, a check-mark” the company said in the post. You can host polls in your Slack channel and have members vote with specific emojis, applaud someone for a job well done, or even add your own images to let everyone in your team start using them as emojis. Now use has spread to the workplace and Slack users can take advantage of emoji to share their thoughts with their colleagues.
Whenever someone types a message into a Slack chatroom, you can hover your mouse over the message. Yes, there’s a star feature adjacent to each message, but Slack says it was intended to “create personal reminders and quick to-do lists”.
The feature, which is set to bring about a change on how we use messaging at work, was born this way. Users were already able to send emojis casually while chatting, but now anyone can specifically react to messages in Slack with emojis.
Here’s a possible use case: you ask your team whether they want to go to MobileBeat next week (tickets still available) and instead of posting “I’m in” or “can’t wait”, they can respond with emojis such as thumbs up, hands raised, etc. Yes, emoji reactions are here. It’s unclear if there’s a way to prevent people from doing this, which means that all the jokesters at your office are going to drive you nuts by adding the poop emoji to every comment they can.
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“In addition to the reactions on messages and files, AND the new emoji picker, we’ve updated the Recent Mentions tab in the top right corner to also include reactions, so you can review any new reactions added to things you’ve posted all over Slack, in one place”.
