# Why teams need slack time for reflection and innovation

DevFeed: [Why teams need slack time for reflection and innovation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-teams-need-slack-not-the-tool-39959.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/why-teams-need-slack/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2022-01-01T12:37:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [hiring-engineering-excellence-organizational-design-software-craft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hiring-engineering-excellence-organizational-design-software-craft.md>), [innovation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/innovation.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article argues that teams perform better when they have slack time instead of being kept fully occupied by incoming requests. Time for reflection helps teams learn, address problems, explore alternatives, and develop more proactive and innovative solutions.

## Source excerpt

Why teams need slack - not the tool At BRYTER, we were hiring a lot. Therefore, we were of course also discussing how many people of which profession we really need. While management trusted us completely to make the right decisions here, sometimes I encountered that other people were afraid, that we hire people who are not 100% busy.