OmbuLabs Blog

When a new team member comes onboard, there are several tools and resources they need to access, as well as processes, practices and guidelines they need to be aware of. There is also workflow and company culture information you want to communicate. After all, each company has its unique features and you want new team members to be comfortable with the existing team.

For remote teams, this process can be very challenging. Thankfully, if you use Slack, you can use their Workflows feature to easily onboard new team members, making the process actionable and easy to follow.

In this article I’ll describe how I used Slack Workflows to make the onboarding process here at OmbuLabs quick and easy.

Monit is a powerful tool for monitoring processes on Unix systems and sometimes it can be very useful to receive notifications about a specific process from your server to your everyday tool, Slack. This article will show you exactly how to do that.