Shannon Santanocito, a service delivery and operations manager at Stanford University, and her team provide a wide range of IT support services. Stanford University Using Slack to transform on-campus staff into a distributed workforce Turns out, careful planning and a bit of prescience made the transition that much smoother. Of respondents who felt that their company was highly prepared, 46% preferred working from home (versus 17% among those who felt their company was not highly prepared).Īt Slack Frontiers, our annual conference focused on transforming how everyone works, we talked with leaders from three very different organizations-Stanford University, Comcast and Booz Allen Hamilton-about how they pivoted to remote work. This was especially true when their leadership already had a remote work plan in place. Yet workers who used Slack, the channel-based messaging platform, were more likely than non-Slack-users to report that their productivity actually improved when working from home. At first, employees new to working from home struggled to maintain productivity and communication. During the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, we surveyed nearly 3,000 knowledge workers across all 50 states to understand how they were adapting.

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