You may be driving your colleagues nuts with a seemingly harmless Slack practice known as 'hey hanging'

• If you've ever sent a message that said "hi" and nothing else, you may be guilty of "hey hanging."
• Some workers say the practice can cause anxiety and disrupt productivity.
• "Please don't say just hello in chat," a website on the issue reads. "Just ask the question!"

Have you ever been deep in the zone, finally making quality progress on a challenging project that had stumped you for weeks, when the audible, abrupt, triple-ping alert of a new Slack message pulled you out of your concentrated state, only to read a simple message of:

"Hey."

And nothing else.