Because you get too many messages

Your organization uses a messaging platform.

It allows anyone in the organization to interrupt anyone else in the organization at any time.

It allows anyone in the organization to interrupt everyone else in the organization at any time.

If you turn the notifications off, you’ll miss the truly urgent and important messages, the issues that used to prompt a phone call, but are now dealt with through the messaging platform.

So you spend your entire day trying to parse messages that may signify that your boss is about to fire you, or that Brian in IT mildly disapproves of the latest OS update, or that sales are up 3.79% this quarter, or that the organization is about to collapse, or that Marge in HR has a cat that did something cute this morning.