You can easily defend that for only 6k with 'but we like it and we'll be more productive with it and we won't hate our jobs'

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9dev 10 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah, but that wouldn't be honest. Slack is more pleasant to use, but not 6k more pleasant to use. I'd rather put up with Teams and get my devs a raise instead.

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craftkiller 10 hours ago | parent [-]

How few devs do you have? Assuming a small startup of 12, you'd be able to give each dev a raise of $42 per month. Your devs would have to be severely underpaid to notice a $42/month raise.

	▲	kstrauser 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And if you put it to a vote, "would you rather upgrade from Teams to Slack for $9 per month, or get $9 of taxable income more per month?", I think there's a very good chance you'd be switching that week. (I don't love Slack by any means. Still, I'd pay $9/mo out of my own pocket not to use Teams.)