


But unlike office conversations, Huddles also have live captioning and archivable transcripts. Slack describes its new Huddles audio chat feature as "a lightweight, audio-first way of communicating in Slack channels or DM threads," calling it "a space to talk through work on the fly." The idea is to replicate the unscheduled, informal discussions that happen all the time in an office environment, from morning greetings to pre-meeting preps and impromptu debriefs.They bring audio chat and recorded video clips to Slack channels and DMs, aiming to fill out some of the extra capabilities distributed teams will need as the world emerges out of lockdown into the hybrid working patterns of the Vaccine Economy. Today saw messaging platform Slack roll out a couple of alternative solutions that it's been working on since first mooting them as long ago as last October. How do you reproduce the immediacy of everyone working in the same office when we're all working from different locations? It quickly became evident last year that sitting on end-to-end Zoom calls isn't the answer.
