(Reuters) - Slack Applied sciences Inc mentioned its workplace messaging provider was hit by an outage on Monday, disrupting remote work as of us returned from the holidays.
The firm mentioned it was investigating the connection complications affecting users and would proceed to share updates every 30 minutes till the incident has been downgraded.
Higher than 15,000 users had first and most predominant reported complications, as per outage tracking web narrate Downdectector. Currently over 4,000 users are restful going through complications.
Downdetector handiest tracks outages by collating standing reports from a series of sources, including client-submitted errors on its platform. The outage will seemingly be affecting a greater sequence of users.
As companies at some point of the realm shift to working from residence as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, query of for services and products offered by Slack and Microsoft Corp’s Teams has obtained traction as offices conduct meetings remotely.
The messaging app has added more than 20,000 paid potentialities within the last two quarters, bringing its whole sequence of paid potentialities to over 142,000.
Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Amy Caren Daniel and Krishna Chandra Eluri