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From the article: I don't miss it at all, at least not in terms of doing my job well. I miss the memes and the ~banter~.

On the other hand, from their picture, it appears that all their people are in the same room. They don't really need an online system for this.

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They did mention remote workers. I imagine the need to communicate to everyone in the room and the remoties.

Yeah, we have three people in the UK, two in Canada, and a handful of remote freelancers / contractors. Slack is definitely useful for keeping in touch with them. The question is, how much constant communication do we actually need to put out a day's worth of content? Most of us can work autonomously or with a little one-on-one chatting with our editors, but we were just on Slack because we were trying to create a virtual office that, while nice, probably isn't necessary to actually put out a product.

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