tech
February 15, 2026
Slackers of the World, Unite!
In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later. Andela’s model was to recruit and train promising African engineers, then place them at Western tech firms, which meant its employees and clients were scattered across time zones; it desperately needed a way for its distributed workforce to share information and make decisions easily and asynchronously, ideally without subjecting anyone to a deluge of emails. So the company started using Slack.
TL;DR
- Andela, a startup, made a significant decision in 2014.
- Their model involved recruiting and training African engineers for Western tech firms.
- This led to a distributed workforce across different time zones.
- They needed a way for employees and clients to share information and make decisions easily and asynchronously.
- The company started using Slack to manage communication and avoid excessive emails.
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