Slack Consultants Are Bringing the Chat App to Corporate America
As millennials sour on the office messaging platform, a new industry rises to help older folks use it.
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For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack.
Don't know what Slack is? He can help. The 27-year-old runs ChatOverload, a consulting firm that helps companies modernize team communications using the popular, two-year-old messaging platform. For less tech-savvy (or millennial-savvy) organizations, Markovich holds seminars, builds custom Slackbots, and explains how to "have fun" with group chat. So far, he said, he's worked with about half a dozen companies (though he can't disclose which they are).