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Slack notification volume in large teams creates chronic attention fragmentation

As team size grows, Slack channel activity generates a volume of notifications that interrupts deep work and cannot be meaningfully filtered without manual per-channel configuration. Default settings favor visibility over focus, and the granularity of controls has not kept pace with org complexity.

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