New Delhi, April 3 -- For years, workplace software kept multiplying with the promise of making work easier. What it often delivered instead was fragmentation. A simple task could mean bouncing between a calendar, project tracker, CRM, email, browser tabs, meeting notes, and a growing list of AI tools that were each useful in isolation but rarely worked together in any meaningful way.

Slack now wants to change that equation by recasting Slackbot as something much bigger than an assistant inside a chat window. In its latest push, the company is positioning Slackbot as the interface through which work itself gets done - a single conversational layer that can connect apps, agents, enterprise data, meetings, and workflows from one place.

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