In a world where your teammates may no longer walk through the office together each morning, it’s more important than ever to keep everyone aligned. Distributed and remote work is here to stay, and the sooner you get everyone connected, the better off your team will be.

Here are a few ways you can use Airtable to keep everyone on the same page when no one is in the same room.

> Download our ebook to learn about the challenges distributed teams face, as well as tips on how you can better manage your own team.

Keep everyone updated on status changes with automations

Communicating status updates can get murky when plans suddenly change or deadlines get pushed back. Consider setting up an automation in your base that updates your Slack channels every time a record’s status changes so nothing falls through the cracks.

Try it out for yourself: click the automations button in the upper right corner of your base, then select “send a Slack message.” From there, you can customize your trigger type and connect it to a table.

Let’s say you’re on a content team that is publishing articles daily. In this specific example, we want a Slack message to be sent every time the status on a record is changed to “ready for publish” so teammates can get content out on time. Our trigger type will be “when record is updated,” and our action is “send a Slack message.”

Once you’ve set these conditions, connect your Slack account and create an automated message. Now, your team’s Slack channel will be notified every time an article is ready for publication. Everyone will stay informed and your publishing schedule won’t falter a bit.