Slack users with Oura rings can opt in to share two scores generated from the data that the device collects 24/7. When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Slack told The Daily Beast the company “offers a variety of settings and controls so that customers can make the right decisions for their security and compliance needs… Slack is a workplace communication tool and we take the privacy and confidentiality of our customer’s data very seriously.”īut that doesn’t guarantee the Oura feature won’t carry risks. Slack is not working directly with Oura on its new tool, which is just part of the suite of thousands of third-party apps available on the messaging platform. “The goal of an offering like this is increased awareness of teammates’ well-being, more empathetic interactions and stronger collaboration.”īut these intimate scores, according to tech and privacy experts, could simply reveal that your coworker recently celebrated a Margarita Monday, or at worst, force employees to disclose a disability-potentially spurring workplace discrimination and boosting insurance costs.
“Remote work can be lonely and pose challenges in connecting with teams,” Oura CEO Tom Hale told The Daily Beast. Oura claims that the new feature will revive camaraderie between coworkers at a time when many offices remain shuttered or hardly full. The Finnish company behind the Oura ring, a wearable device that gathers various health metrics, recently announced that Slack users can share statuses with their coworkers boasting their sleep quality and how well their body has recovered from the previous day.Īnd conversely, that also means giving your bosses a creepy open window into whether you might be sleeping poorly. Take Slack for instance-if you thought the app’s incessant dings, cringey gifs, and emoji overload was the worst of it, think again. The fight for better work-life balance often feels like an arms race: As workers achieve some sort of concessions for flexibility and choice (like remote work), they are also expected to entrench their lives further in the myriad of work-related apps and technologies that keep them tethered to their tasks and to their supervisors.Īnd it seems like tech companies have no shortage of imaginative ideas to make this more horrifying and dystopian.
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