Slack Huddles is being updated to include one-click video, multi-person screen sharing, auto-save to channel, and more.
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The company has already shared a beta version with some of its customers, and it plans to make the upgrades generally available in autumn 2022.
Slack Huddles is a lightweight audio-first means of communicating which has been built to emulate the everyday interactions and informal conversations that workers might share in an office.
Rob Seaman, SVP for Slack at Salesforce, puts Slack into its broader market context:
"We are in a time where we are seeing the digital infrastructure take priority over the physical headquarters.
"We are seeing 66% of workers in a flexible working situation at this time, meaning they are either remote workers or they are in a hybrid setup.
"It is really the digital infrastructure that's helped us cope through all this change, and it's helped us stay productive and collaborative."
Slack Huddles has achieved a 95% customer satisfaction rating, and it is quickly becoming the fastest-growing adopted feature in the history of Slack.
There are already millions of people using Slack Huddles every week, including companies such as Dell, Expedia Group, Wayfair, Intuit, and Kiva.
New huddles features
The main updates to Slack Huddles are one-click video, multi-person screen sharing and drawing, emojis, reactions and stickers, and auto-saving the message thread to a channel.
The new huddles features will allow teams to brainstorm ideas and get feedback. The ideas can be shared in the thread for the team and managers to review. In the Slack Connect channel, you can share design ideas and screen-share presentations. It can also be used by remote workers who can add colleagues to a huddle from their phones with the option of sharing their live video too.
Clips is another Slack feature to launch recently, allowing workers to share audio or video recordings in a direct message or a channel. Clips can be watched whenever the viewer is ready, and they come with searchable transcriptions. It was designed for workers that want flexibility and a simplified way of absorbing content. Slack users are currently viewing 1.2m minutes of clips every week.
Slack Huddles are also being released for United States government agencies, fulfilling the necessary security and compliance requirements. The company believes the uptake by these various government bodies will dramatically increase the number of Slack users.
