I did some analysis on ~1000 paying $WORK customers. Do engineers prefer Slack over Teams? Is it only scrappy startups/SMBs that use Slack? Using data from Slack customer lists + job openings from those companies, here are some interesting insights I found.

Stat #1: Among companies that use $WORK, 20% of their job openings are engineering. For Teams users, only 11% of their jobs are engineering. Companies with a focus on engineering choose Slack over Teams due to its many integrations with tools like Github/Jira/Pagerduty.

Stat #2: A lot of startups use $WORK. But what's more important is the BIGGEST innovators/unicorns use it. At least 65 of the top 100 private co by valuation ( @CBInsights) and 8 of top 10 are Slack customers. These are the future Fortune 500s that will grow in size + importance.

Stat #3 (a fun one): The average Glassdoor rating for companies that use $WORK was 3.87. The average Glassdoor rating for all companies is 3.3. Causation doesn't imply correlation, but it seems to suggest companies that allow remote work have higher job satisfaction overall.

Stat #4: $WORK is mentioned in twice the number of job openings as $MSFT Teams. While you wouldn't think of Slack or Teams as "skills", there are more roles in companies devoted to improving business workflows/processes by creating Slack bots and integrations.

Based on these insights, $WORK has a commanding lead among the biggest, disruptive innovators in the world. And as technology/automation becomes more important in every organization, Slack will become essential with its more than 2000 integrations.

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