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Launched in 2009, Slack has progressively become a must-have communication tool. With nearly 10 million active daily users and tens of thousands of global customers, Slack is one of the most widely used business technologies.
When it comes to managing a hybrid team, as mighty as Slack can be, as a standalone app it leaves some important needs unfulfilled. And as most businesses transition from forced remote to hybrid work styles, the scope of tools managers need in order to properly run a hybrid team have expanded to:
Office Management
Productivity
Social & Fun
HR & Culture
Project / Task Management
Synchronous vs asynchronous communication, and so much more,
So what is one to do? Slack integrations are here to save us from using 1 million different tools in different places. The question then becomes, which integrations can help us save time & resources, consolidate our tech stacks, and fulfill the most needs.
In addition to being a must-have solution in the enterprise world, Slack has also gradually become a major player in the Future of Work, much appreciated by teams that have adopted a hybrid or remote-first work mode. Since 2017, Slack is particularly invested in the launch of various initiatives such as the Roadmap for the future of work in 2021, or more recently the Future of Work program aiming at identifying and supporting the best solutions of the Future of Work movement.
As many hybrid teams try to optimize their collaboration with Slack - the preferred solution for hybrid teams, here are our top 10 best Slack apps for hybrid and remote-first teams:
Used for: Project management, Asynchronous Communication, Task Management
Available on: Webapp, Slack, Calendar
Claap is an async video collaboration platform. It helps you share your thoughts through screen recording, get contextual feedback and make decisions. All without the meetings or endless messaging threads.
Use Claap for async video collaboration
Best features with Slack:
Share your recording in a specific channels
Get contextual feedback with annotations & time-stamped comments
Reply to Claap comments directly in Slack.
Get notified when: - You're tagged in a video - Someone replies to one of your comments - New comments are made in videos you’re subscribed to - You’re invited to a new Claap videos
Used for: Social & fun, Office management, HR & Culture
Available on: Webapp, IOS, Android
Café, the social hub for Hybrid teams
Café offers new ways to schedule real-life interactions across teams to improve serendipity and connectivity in your organization. Café connects people across the organization in three ways: by getting to know each other’s hobbies, encouraging in-person meetups, and organizing events.
Best features with Slack:
Set your location within Slack
See teammates' statuses based on their calendar: meetings, office hours, birthday…
See where your team and work besties are working from
Get connected to someone new every week for a coffee chat
View who’s working from which location on a map
Get a daily Slack channel with who’s at the office today
Use Birthdaybot and never miss an employee birthday
BirthdayBot keeps everyone informed about upcoming birthdays. It also ensures all the members of your team get a proper b-day celebration, whether they are working in the office or remote!
Best features with Slack:
Keep track of workplace anniversaries
Sync with Google or Outlook Calendar to see all the dates in calendar view
Keep celebrations in separate channels for different offices or departments
Configurable reminder levels
Opt out of birthday celebrations if you prefer to keep your birthday private
Used for: Project Management, Task Management, Productivity
Available on: Webapp, Zoom
Use Range to replace stanups with async check-ins
Range replaces standups with async check-ins and allows you to keep your team connected, no matter where they're working.
By sharing your status and updates across the team without a video call, you know how people are doing and get updates on every project.. You can also add goals to async check-ins and meetings to stay aligned as a team.
Best features with Slack:
Updates and check in reminders in Slack
Fill your daily check in directly in Range #channel
Used for: Project Management, Async Communication, Task Management, Productivity
Available on: Web App, IOS, Android
Slite, the modern knowledge base
Slite is a modern knowledge base that helps teams escape the chaos of information overload. Browse and use dozens of templates for different use cases (project management, onboarding, to-do list, plannings, CRM…), and improve async communication and collaborative work,
Best features with Slack:
Paste Slite links into Slack and display title, author and channel
Share notes directly from Slite to Slack channel
Search for Slite notes and share them directly from Slack using "/slite
Receive Slite activity highlights into any Slack channel when notes are created or edited
Used for: Project Management, Async Communication, Task Management, Productivity
Available on: Web App, IOS, Android
Miro, the collaborative whiteboard
Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform that enables distributed teams to work together effectively. Miro is perfect for team brainstorming and mindmapping, facilitating agile ceremonies, running design reviews and sprints, and creating a central visual hub for projects.
Best features:
Get notifications in Slack about changes on your Miro boards so that you can stay up to date on new mentions, projects, and team activities.
Review comments,
Browse and find recently updated boards
Approve access requests directly within Slack without interrupting your workflow.
Display Miro board name, description, and cover image when sharing the link in Slack
Used for: HR & Culture, Productivity, Async Communication
Available on: Web App, Slack, Teams
Boost employee engagement with Engagewith
EngageWith is a comprehensive employee engagement platform to build and boost team culture. EngageWith allows you to track employee motivation and engagement through E-NPS, anonymous feedback, culture and management surveys, manager feedback, or rewards and recognition.
Best features with Slack:
Send peer Kudos and Shoutouts for their notable contributions.
Share appreciation and recognition in the Slack channel of your choice
Design and sendsurveys and Feedback questions to generate eNPS
Get employees feedback in a dedicated channel
Use 45+ pre-built survey templates.
Access real time team and individual leaderboards to track and measure engagement and motivation.
Used for: Time Tracking, Project Management, Productivity
Available on: Webapp, Slack
Track task-based time from Slack with Time
Time is a task-based time-tracking app, built for Slack. Time allows you to manage projects, track working time, measure productivity and create reports right from Slack. You can easily track the time spent on each project with Slack texts commands - and then access your dashboard with work time visualization, insights, and live time tracking from the webapp.
Best features with Slack:
Set working time – Starting time in your timezone to inform your colleagues
Start your day – Use /t description to start tracking time.
Share your status and see what others are working on without disturbing them.
User various slash commands to: - Generate a timestamped record in a specific #channel - Track a break between tasks - Set yourself unavailable when on call or meeting - Mark the end of your business day and limited availability - See who's online right now
Used for: Task Management, Project Management, Async Communication
Available on: Web App, Slack
Workstreams for task management in Slack
Workstreams is a workflow productivity solution & task management app for Slack. Workstreams.ai provides instant Kanban workflows and allows you to create tasks in any channel and assign them across distributed teams with ease.
Best features with Slack:
Use shortcuts in any channel to create a task or quickly access your tasks
Used for: HR & Culture, People Management, Productivity
Available on: Web App, Slack
Boost and track employee engagement with Polly
Polly is a form and survey tool - purpose-built for Slack, that helps you to engage your employees, collect feedback and async check in with your team. Through Polly web or Slack app, we can design and customize polls for various uses, collect and visualize answers data to track employee engagement.
Best features with Slack:
Send single or multi-question pollys to your team for instant response
Send polls in private or publics channels
Use templates to check-in, onboard, or collect feedbacks from your employees
