Workplace messaging app Slack hit with outage on first Monday of 2021

The company said it was investigating the issue and would follow up

Slack Technologies Inc said its workplace messaging service was hit by an outage on Monday, disrupting remote work as people returned from the holidays.
 

The company said it was investigating the connection issues affecting users and would continue to share updates every 30 minutes until the incident has been downgraded.
 

More than 15,000 users had initially reported issues, as per outage tracking website Downdectector. Currently over 4,000 users are still facing issues.
 

Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of