Whether you’re used to working from home or are connecting remotely for pandemic-related reasons, this is not the time to be cut off from your team. Unfortunately, the communication service Slack is suffering a major outage, causing messages to fail and preventing users from connecting. The service’s issues have lasted about a half-hour so far with no word on exactly what the issue is or ETA for a fix.

You can keep an eye on the Slack status page to see when things are resolved, or maybe just go for a socially-distanced walk or watch something on TV. And if you can’t go offline, then have you heard that Google Meet is available for free?