Why? In my experience Teams has generally been better than Slack. People complain about Team's speed but I can't even count how often Slack used to get hung on me.
Almost everything about Slack is better. It's easier to manage conversations/channels. It's easier to read. It's easier to write. It's easier to customize.
The only thing I've heard is that Slack is unstable for some people. I haven't experienced any stability issues in 3+ years using the MacOS app. I've heard that the Slack web interface may be the cause of stability issues.
We have Slack in my organization, but corporate has started using Teams for the past year. I think the writing is on the wall, and I'm dreading it.
It may sound silly, but “we use Slack instead of Teams” would not be insignificant in the consideration of whether to accept a new job.
My bigger problem with teams is their multi-Team model. In between my current and last job, I (part time) contracted with a handful of groups and every single one added me to their Slack or Teams group. With Slack, they popped up as separate orgs and I could move between them as I needed. With Teams, I had to log out of one to open the other.
I will never know how many questions I missed (aka billable hours) and people I annoyed by "ignoring" them when I had simply had to join some other group's Teams to take a call and forgot to come back to their Teams.
It's been like this for at least a year and a half, and I've submitted it through the "feedback form" countless times.
Ps.: Interestingly enough, in Pavucontrol the application shows up as "Skype", with the icon and all.
I can’t imagine why someone would build that and then think “This is it. This is good enough.”
Hopefully my customers will keep using Slack.
I have clients that create external accounts for me under their domain. Once signed in, I can no longer sign into a different account, so my meeting with other clients have Company A in my email... kind of odd.
Of course, I can't actually create a personal Teams account, because my company does not use Teams.
So, I decided to burn everything MS Teams related out of my home directory, and start fresh. I am now a guest user for every company that needs calls done via Teams.
Arguably a worse off solution, no?
Assuming homedir is on a Linux machine.
It doesn't even matter if the choices and ergonomics are better or worse... Since it's just not-Slack, it gets rejected by a certain (IMO quite large) share of the population.
My company tried to switch to Teams and there was practically an employee uprising... it now sticks to Teams for all non-eng while eng does Slack.
Why did the other depts stick to Teams?
Your comment seems to precisely prove my point, when reading it from my seat :D
eng usually knows about tech tools better than other departments.
For programs: Ask the finance department about Sage and excel and they will have opinions.
You misunderstand. They didn't have a say.
Main thing though is the default-open. If you don't get that, well that's ok, many people don't.