Slack has introduced a new Scheduled Send feature that the corporate is beginning to roll out in the present day, which — because the identify implies — will let customers schedule messages to ship at a later time and date.

The scheduled ship function provides a brand new drop-down arrow to the inexperienced “send message” button in Slack’s desktop app. Clicking it can reveal a brand new menu that enables for scheduling a message to ship to a room, direct message, or group thread in a while. Mobile customers will be capable to entry an analogous menu by long-pressing on the ship button within the Slack app on Android and iOS.

Slack will supply each pre-filled choices (like “tomorrow morning at 9:00AM”) in addition to the flexibility to set a customized date and time to ship a message. Messages could be scheduled as much as to 120 days upfront, and customers will be capable to reschedule, edit, or delete scheduled messages earlier than they’re despatched.

“Today we launched Scheduled Send to empower users to communicate and collaborate in a way that works best for them,” the corporate introduced in a press release, explaining that “teams shouldn’t be obligated to sync their schedules in order to communicate effectively.”

The capacity to schedule messages is a vital one given the varied time zones and places that places of work — each distant, in-person, and hybrid — stretch throughout in in the present day’s work world. And whereas e-mail providers like Gmail have supplied the flexibility to schedule emails for later (in order that customers aren’t pinging groups at odd hours or getting messages misplaced in a single day), the function has been notably absent from Slack till now.