July 19, 2024

Schedule “Do not disturb” for deep work slots

Schedule “Do not disturb” status on Slack to automatically pause Slack notifications for your deep work slots. With a schedule in place, you'll only receive notifications on days you choose during certain hours. Outside of those times, notifications will be paused.

Set a notification schedule in Slack

  1. From your desktop, click your profile picture in the top right
  2. Hover over Pause notifications
  3. Select Set a notification schedule from the menu
  4. Below Allow notifications open the drop-down menu and select: Every day, Weekdays, or Custom.
  5. Choose a start and end time for notifications
  6. Your settings will automatically save, so click the close icon when you're done.

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No Slack notifications in deep work increases quality of focus time in your team

Deep work decreased across the last month by 2.5 hours per week per employee. Value 23 h / week is within Work Smart range of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 30 h / week. Across the company the minimum value is 6 h / week, and the maximum is 26 h / week. This excludes outliers outside the 95th percentile.

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