Is Slack down? Global outage highlights need for communication redundancy for remote teams

On Oct. 6, the digital communication landscape was jolted awake by roughly a 15-minute global Slack outage. This brief interruption had a ripple effect on the remote working world.

Digital tools like Slack have become lifelines in our online work routine, especially for remote teams. Today’s short-lived outage highlighted a pivotal but often ignored fact: we must ensure communication redundancy for these digital tools; otherwise, we expose ourselves to systemic risks.