Manager told me my Slack messages were too long and nobody reads them

I used to write full paragraphs explaining every issue, but after she said that I switched to bullet points with max 3 lines. Now people actually reply to me within an hour instead of ignoring it. Has anyone else gotten feedback about how you communicate that actually made your work life way easier?

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the_drew3d ago

Wait, nobody was reading your work messages just because they were too long?

price.ben3d agoMost Upvoted

Three of my coworkers admitted they never got past the first paragraph @the_drew, feels like a stretch to call it a crisis.

harper9143d ago

Oh man, I've been there. I started putting a quick TLDR at the top of my longer emails and it cut down on the "sorry I never got to that" replies big time. People just don't have the attention span for walls of text at work lol.