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- Slack wants executives to work from home at least twice a week to encourage remote working.
- “Executives will lead by example†as the company becomes “digital firstâ€, CEO Stewart Butterfield told CNN.
- Slack wouldn’t no longer have executive floors, he added.
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tells his executives to come to the office less often so they can set an example for other employees to work remotely.
Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack, told CNN that “Executives will lead by example” as the company goes “digital first.”
“Our advice to executives is to spend less than three days a week in the office,†Butterfield said.
Slack will not have dedicated executive floors, and senior leaders will focus their office time on “team events†and “customer interaction,†he said.
“Getting teams together in person should have a purpose, like building teams, launching projects and other events planned in advance, combining flexibility and predictability,†said Butterfield.
The company plans to redesign its office to focus on more flexibility, but will always strive to support employees who want a dedicated space to work, he said. He did not go into more detail on this point.
Slack, which was acquired by Salesforce in December, is headquartered in San Francisco and has 11 offices around the world, including in London, Pune and Melbourne.
Butterfield – who founded Slack in 2013 after selling Flickr to Yahoo – was one of 15 executives polled by CNN on the future of work.
He wasn’t the only CEO to envision a more distant and flexible future.
Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, said the “40-hour office week” will become “a thing of the past.”
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky was also on the panel. In July, Insider announced that the construction site would leave it up to managers to decide how often teams come to the office.
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