At Steph Korey's Away, Banning Private Slack Chats Created a Toxic Culture

In a Healthy Company Culture, It’s Okay to Vent in Private
At the troubled luggage startup Away, private messaging and group chats were effectively banned
Leah Fessler
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Jan 20, 2020
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Photo: FG Trade/E+/Getty ImagesOne detail still haunts me from that explosive report on workplace dysfunction at the luggage company Away that the Verge published last month: Private messaging, for all intents and purposes, was banned at…
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Written by Leah Fessler
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Investor at NextView Ventures. Journalist. Thinking about gender, equality, and pugs. Formerly at Chief, Quartz, Slow, Bridgewater Associates, Middlebury.
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