How to Delete Your Slack Messages
If you’re concerned about message retention, solutions are just a few clicks away
We’ve all typed things into Slack that we might not want our bosses to see. For me, it might have been “baby Yoda” a few dozen too many times. For employees of the suitcase company Away, it might have been valid complaints in a private Slack channel about how the company was not as progressive or inclusive as it claimed to be, according to a recent story on The Verge.
According to the story, Away employees faced a draconian Slack policy, where private communication was highly discouraged in favor of all communications being conducted in surveillable public channels. Six employees were allegedly fired from Away after CEO Steph Korey was invited into a channel where employees criticized the company. Screenshots in the story expose Korey bullying employees over Slack.
The story serves as an important reminder that if your company uses Slack, every conversation you have on the platform belongs to the company — whether that conversation is in a public or private channel. With that in mind, there are features in Slack that can help you keep your conversations private. One Slack feature in particular — retention — allows users to delete messages after a certain period of time.
