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For some people, the chime of a Slack or Teams notification is just a noise. For others, it’s a Pavlovian trigger for everything we hate about the working world. Ping! It’s a nastygram from someone completely in the wrong. Boop! It’s an invite for a meeting that should have been an email.
These modern elements of work should be a source of ease and enjoyment, not a digital leash we keep on our corporately issued gear. Emails should be easy on the eyes. Commuting should feel hopeful. Presentations and meetings should be joyfully informative.
Maybe it’s an overly optimistic POV, but Gen Z might be on to something with this whole romanticizing trend, and you can use AI tools to help test it out.
Custom emotes
Why respond to a meeting invite or status update with a boring thumbs up when you could use AI tools like Google Gemini and ChatGPT to create your own custom emoji?
I used Gemini to create a bunch of emoji curated for work at CNET, based on my favorite video games, to spice up chat and email correspondence. Here’s how they turned out:
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Once you get an AI tool to help you generate custom emojis, you can upload them into your work’s communications platform of choice, whether it’s Slack, Google Chat or Microsoft Teams.
De-escalating downsides
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