Some people might take one of the existing standard emoji set and imbue it with meaning by adding a custom message to mean “Do not disturb” or :school-bus: to designate time away from the keyboard for a school run.
Of course, it’s always been possible to make a custom status. Or we might need to take a moment to exercise, or take a deep breath before turning our minds back to work. There are also new emoji for instances when you might be used to signaling to your colleagues visually: Sitting at your desk with headphones on might communicate that you’re in a focused state, heads-down, and don’t want to be disturbed. The Unicode set of emoji covers family groups and teachers, but not the more realistic sense of, My children require all my attention… and they require it right now! Whereas in the past we might occasionally have gone out to lunch, we’re more likely now to need to take a little extra time to make lunch. Many of us are taking care of our children and/or supervising schoolwork during our normal work hours. So what is it we’ve been hearing from our customers? And why this, rather than using the emoji that already exist? There’s even one about your cat’s love for your keyboard. The images range from socially distanced high fives to heads-down work and family time. If you still need help, here’s a link to our help center article on adding custom emoji to Slack. You can add this set of emoji by clicking the “add emoji” button within the emoji picker. This emoji pack for remote work is rolling out now and will be available to everyone in the coming days. To that end, and with people who might be new to Slack particularly in mind, we’ve created a handy set of custom emoji for using in your status (or in messages or reactions) for those moments when you need to convey more information. Instead, you need to give a little more information or context around your availability. And so does the way we work together.Īccording to our customers (and our own recent experience!), when the majority-if not all-of your company is “working remotely,” that status is basically useless. We picked these because when working in the office together is the norm, it’s useful to let people know when you’re not in the building. When we first released statuses in Slack, we included a few default status updates so that you could let colleagues know whether you were on vacation, offline, sick or, perhaps, working remotely.
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