Slack: less meetings, more animals that can kill you
Companies love a good theme for their meeting room names, be they colours, inventors or trees. But the naming system behind Slack’s new offices in Melbourne might be the best yet.
As Slack’s Linda Shaw explains: “The first one is irikundji, which is box jellyfish. All our conference rooms are named after animals that will kill you in Australia.”
Other rooms include:
Board Room: Great White
Genius…toothbrushes in bathrooms (unhygenic) and quirky names for meeting rooms. Space ‘occupied by plants’. Live curated twitter feeds.
Is there nothing this company will not innovate?
I’d be more interested in flexible work hours, remote working (isn’t that what their product provides?) and…a slippery slide.
Oh, and a ball room, with bar, serving organic, locally-sourced cocktails after 4.
You’re journalists.
Can we please have ‘fewer meetings’, not ‘less’??
Yours, in pedantry