Harness the Complete Potential of Your Tech Stack with Slack Work Objects

Today, we're revolutionizing how you interact with third-party apps in Slack. Slack work objects now offer dynamic previews of your data and content from external applications directly within Slack, enhancing the integration between your app's data and Slack conversations. This allows you to communicate, share, and take action on your work without the need to constantly switch between applications. Keeping your conversations and essential context in one place leads to faster and more efficient collaboration for your team.

Teams often manage multiple applications to complete their tasks, resulting in fragmented workflows, data silos, and frequent context switching, which collectively lead to hours of lost productivity. Slack is redefining work from the ground up by consolidating all your people, apps, and data into one central hub. It's the ultimate destination for getting work done.

In the past year, we've improved your Slack work experience by providing more in-depth Salesforce integrations, such as Salesforce channels and Tableau Next. With Slack work objects, we're expanding the concept of deeper integrations to third-party apps, offering a connected experience through rich app previews that present data and information

alongside conversations. We're excited to announce that our first group of partners, including the apps you use most Google Drive, OneDrive, Asana, PagerDuty, Box, and Highspot are now integrated using work objects, allowing you to see and do more directly in Slack.

Bring your apps to life with Slack work objects

Imagine having all your app data directly within Slack, allowing you to view details, images, and documents without switching windows. Slack work objects enable this by standardizing the display of third-party data, creating a stronger link between your apps and team discussions. You'll receive dynamic previews featuring everything from file descriptions to embedded images. Plus, you can perform actions, such as marking Asana tasks as complete, without leaving your Slack workspace. By integrating your app data, conversations, and team members seamlessly, Slack helps you accomplish more within the platform, fulfilling our promise of a unified work operating system.

With Slack work object, you can now:

🔹 Enhance your app usage: Slack work objects integrate your app's data with Slack conversations, allowing you to manage your work in one central location. This enables you to collaborate directly where your file, task, or dashboard is shared. For example, when a document or ticket is shared, you can view and respond to related discussions or take action by adding comments or making edits. These actions include in-line editing of records, marking tasks as complete, or approving requests directly within Slack.

🔹 Access detailed previews of your work: When you share files, tasks, or tickets, you'll receive rich content previews in Slack. This goes beyond a simple link preview, making it easier to grasp the context at a glance, saving you time and effort. For instance, you can view the latest file details, embedded images, and additional information that allow you to take action, such as completing a task, checking a dashboard for updates, or approving work in Slack.

🔹 Receive real-time updates across Slack and your apps: When you edit records, mark tasks as done, or approve requests, both Slack and the app will automatically update. This ensures you always have the most current information, regardless of where you're working.

🔹 Search with swift, comprehensive results: Merging your app data and conversations in Slack provides a complete picture that enhances search, delivering quicker, more accurate results. Now, when you search in Slack, you can instantly find all relevant files and data from integrated apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, Asana, and more. Click on the file for a detailed view that includes related conversations, all on one screen.

🔹 Boost your AI agents with richer context: Your conversations link directly to app data, giving your AI-powered teammates more context to find information and act faster, enhancing your productivity more than ever before.

“Slack is one of our most popular integration partners, and we're excited for these enhancements that make it even easier for users to stay in flow and reduce context switching as they move their most important work foward. Working closely with the Slack team was a fantastic experience, and this launch reflects the shared commitment we have to building great experiences across our two platforms”

David Shackelford - Head of PM, Enterprise & Platform, Asana

Deeper integrations with your favorite apps

Explore the newest features for your favorite apps, designed with Slack work objects. We're integrating your essential tools directly into your workflow, making it easier than ever to accomplish tasks.

Sharing and collaborating on your Google, Microsoft, and Box files is now more straightforward

Slack introduces new Google Drive and OneDrive experiences, enabling teams to share documents for review, co-edit presentations, distribute meeting notes, and collaborate on project plans directly within Slack channels.

The updated Box for Slack integration allows you to share a Box link and instantly view rich, interactive previews—scroll through documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without leaving Slack. Previews remain in sync with the latest Box updates, ensuring you always work with the most current version. Additionally, a streamlined side panel for quick actions and file details helps you stay productive.

“Modern collaboration relies on reducing friction between the tools team use every day. With new enhancements to Box's Slack integration, including dynamic file previews and consistent workflows while securely accessing and sharing Box content without leaving Slack. Box AI will continue participating in Slack conversations and providing assistance based on Box content.”

Fernando Cerenza - Senior Team Director, Product Management, Box

Share a Box link and instantly see rich, interactive previews without leaving Slack.

Manage your Asana projects in Slack with richer previews and faster actions

The newest update to the Asana for Slack integration offers enhanced previews of Asana tasks, projects, and more directly in your Slack channels and DMs, removing the need to toggle between tools. You can now view more at a glance, with essential details like assignee, due date, and project included in the preview. Respond more quickly by commenting, completing, assigning, and more directly from the preview. See full descriptions and custom fields, just like in Asana, ensuring you always have the complete information available. Everything adheres to your Asana permissions, guaranteeing you only see what you’re authorized to.

See Asana tasks and projects in your Slack channels and DMs, so you don’t have to switch between tools.

Boost sales productivity with the new Highspot integration

The Highspot for Slack integration provides a seamless user experience with improved search and detailed content information, allowing users to work more efficiently and intelligently. Highspot items, Spots, and Pitches now show the content type and last update date directly in the main thread, and clicking on the preview reveals more data and discussions within Slack. View all your Highspot content interactions alongside your Slack conversations, displaying views, shares, bookmarks, and downloads for each item.

“Elevating GTM teams to work smarter and make a bigger impact is core to our mission. Doing so means being where they work, with the insights, intuitive experience, and guidance they need to be their best. This is why we’re thrilled to be a Slack work objects launch partner, bringing richer Slack integration to our customers so they can easily access our unique insights and actions everywhere they work.”

Tony Lew - SVP of Product Management & Design, Highspot

View your Highspot content interactions in Slack, including views, shares, bookmarks, and downloads.

Streamline incident management with the new PagerDuty integration

This enhancement integrates PagerDuty incident management directly into Slack, offering rich, metadata-powered previews and a persistent side panel for real-time context and insights. Secure content can be revealed via user authentication, protecting sensitive incident data. By centralizing incident response within Slack, teams can respond faster and collaborate more effectively, ultimately reducing mean time to resolution and improving system reliability.

“When developers are in the middle of an incident, there’s no time to context switch or dig for answers. PagerDuty’s integration with Slack work objects delivers the full incident context and AI-powered guidance right where you’re already working surfacing what matters, suggesting next steps, and letting you act instantly. It’s about unblocking your team, moving with confidence, and getting back to building especially when the stakes are high and reliability and security are not negotiable.”

Rukmini Reddy SVP of Engineering, PagerDuty

Centralize incident response in Slack so your teams can work together more effectively and respond faster.

A central hub for work: connecting all your apps and conversations

Slack work objects revolutionize how you use apps and data within Slack. By integrating deeply across all Slack features, they bring your applications, data, and conversations together in one central hub. No more constant context switching you can now use your apps and have conversations all in one place, so you can stay focused and get work done right from Slack. Plus, search and agents have access to richer information, which means your teams can achieve more, faster. 

Integrations for Salesforce, Tableau Next, Google Drive, OneDrive, Asana, PagerDuty, Box, and Highspot are available or coming soon. We’ll continue expanding the list of integrated apps, so stay tuned for more updates.

Learn more about Slack work objects or start building today.