ought to managers keep out of personal Slack channels?
A reader writes:
I’m the top of HR for my small(ish) worldwide firm. I’m a mixed-race lady and a mother. We’ve got quite a lot of personal Slack channels, together with channels for folks, girls, folks of shade, and many others.
Our folks of shade channel is a comparatively new addition began by an worker who needed a secure house for folk who establish as non-white. I used to be explicitly excluded from the channel as a result of I’m HR and the folks in that channel needed it to be a secure house to speak concerning the points they face. As a mixed-race individual, I felt the sting of exclusion, however as an individual in management completely perceive the need to have a spot the place folks can vent and categorical themselves with out worrying concerning the ever-seeing eye of administration.
This makes me marvel, although, if I ought to recuse myself from the opposite personal channels that I’m a part of (dad and mom and girls) for concern of my presence making these channels appear “unsafe.” I’d be unhappy to lose that a part of my work group however I would like my staff to not fear about management watching their each phrase. Alternatively, ought to I ensure that I’m in these channels with a purpose to preserve a watchful eye? I don’t know the precise reply.
I reply this query — and three others — over at Inc. at this time, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and typically updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there at this time embrace:
- Colleague retains asking if I’m “snug” with work I’ve agreed to tackle
- I can’t perceive my coworker’s unhealthy writing
- Giving suggestions to a job-hopper