I know people at this company. The Slack channel purge coupled with a move to Facebook Workplace to "shake up productivity" was disastrous for most productivity during the month of January.

They did it right after the holidays too — when many employees are just reacquainting themselves with channels and comms again.

Despite some wisdom in the idea of promoting crafters over meetings this isn't some genius mantra of productivity. It was just poor systems neglected by the company being cleaned up in the dumbest way possible. A poor management sandwich.