A great company culture doesn’t stop when you leave the office. Staying in touch after hours is a necessity of 21st century business. Email can feel stale and impersonal, and doesn’t lend itself to group work. So what can you use to keep in touch with your coworkers when you’re out? Here are some great tools along with their pros and cons:   Slack  Slack was first released in 2013 as a group collaboration platform and has since expanded their arsenal. Slack has screen sharing capability, voice and video calling, and hierarchical group chats that fit well into organizational structure. Pros: Slack has great business com features and provides in depth administrative tools. If everyone takes the time to learn their way around the shortcuts the app can be a highly efficient communication asset.   Cons: The user interface can be tricky to get the hang of, and all of the options can get in the way of efficient communication.     Groupme Groupme is a few years older than slack, and has a much more straightforward platform. It doesn’t have a lot of the bells and whistles that Slack has, but the user interface is simple and easy to

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