Slack temperature check integration

I’ve been sick pretty much this entire week. It’s not fun. Today is the first day where I slightly feel like a normal human being again, but I’m trying not to overdo it. I am getting pretty stir-crazy though.

Getting sick is never fun. As a kid, there were definitely days where I wanted to be “sick” so I could play a new video game or watch a new show, but as an adult getting sick is just a huge inconvenience. You have to relax to recover, yet you are focused on all the things you need to do once you feel better.

Working remotely makes the process of calling in sick less formal and harder to authenticate. What’s to stop someone from just saying they are sick and then going to the beach? I for one, do not particularly enjoy the beach so this is less of a concern.

This did get me thinking… what if there was a way to measure your health data whether through Apple Health or Oura and integrate it with Slack? You could get a temperature check to hold people who play fast and loose with sick days accountable. To be fair, I don’t love this idea because not having a fever is a very poor indicator of whether or not you are sick.

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