Slack Status Anxiety: When Online Becomes a Performance Metric
Green dot culture is killing focus. When "active" status becomes more important than actual work, we have a problem.
The green dot pressure
Managers check who's "active." Teams correlate green dots with productivity. The result: people keep Slack open to perform presence, not work.
The focus destruction
Staying "active" means constant tab switching. Mouse wiggling. Fake activity. Real work suffers while we perform being online.
Remote work theater
Coffee cup on keyboard. Mouse jiggler apps. Scheduled messages. We've built an entire ecosystem around faking presence instead of measuring output.
Shifting to outcomes
Measure delivery, not presence. Trust teams. Set clear expectations. Kill the green dot culture before it kills your team's ability to do deep work.
Float AI helps by batching communications and allowing deep work blocks while ensuring nothing urgent gets missed.