Here at Slack, we see something happening across every industry: Teams are working harder than ever, but on top of foundations that can’t keep up. The old way of patching together tools, digging through channels, and rebuilding context again and again is like putting duct tape on a cracked foundation. Most employees feel it every day. Their work is spread across apps and tabs, and they spend a surprising amount of time on manual, repetitive tasks. And when people switch between tools all day long, productivity drops by as much as 40%. This fragmentation shows up as repetitive work, slow handoffs, and too much prep time before meetings