How I Built Resilience: Live with Stewart Butterfield and Steve Holmes

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Before the pandemic, Slack was a pretty widely used office messaging platform. But in a single week, starting March tenth, Slack onboarded more than two million new users. Among those working remotely are Stewart's 2100 employees who work in offices in ten countries around the world. I spoke with Stuart from his home in the Bay Area where he's been wondering what does a future of work and Slack look like? Thank you for being here. How are you doing, by the way?

I I'm doing okay. I mean I I um I'd feel grateful that we have a backyard given that we have um two little dogs. That's something. On the other hand, we have twenty one hundred employees around the world. kind of a distribution of Of how people are doing right now. You know, some people are are okay, many people are stressed and anxious, you know, fears about an economic fallout, about uh the health of their friends and family and their communities. Some people go into little bunkers trying to work while

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