Digital communication platforms have become the communication backbone of modern work. They make collaboration more visible, but they also make work easier to carry into private time. Research on non-work-time electronic communication shows that after-hours messages can consume personal resources. For chat application design, the lesson is simpl… Read More


The development of modern messaging begins well before social platforms. In the early computing age, computers were massive, expensive, and reserved for trained specialists. Work was usually handled through batch processing. People prepared paper tapes, submitted jobs and commands, and waited for a line-printer output to return results. This pro… Read More