Slack Is Down Right Now. Here's What to Expect. The latest on the Slack outage.

By Dan Bova Edited by Dan Bova

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2021 is off to an interesting start: Slack is down on the first full workday of the year. The company released a statement on Monday morning reading: "Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused."

The outage began around 10 a.m. ET. It's not yet clear how widespread the problem is, but many companies that rely on it as their primary form of communication have found their operations grounded to a halt. Depending on how eager you were to get back to work, this is either a great or terrible way to start the new year!

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Related: 5 Tips and Tricks You Need to Know About Slack

Dan Bova

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Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia ZoneRoad & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little Book of Awesome Stuff, and Wendell the Werewolf

Read his humor column This Should Be Fun if you want to feel better about yourself.

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