Slack will soon honor your chosen skin tone color when you smash that emoji reaction.

Many of us here The Reporter Door Slack has a huge fan of emoji reactions, and today we saw that our newsroom slacks now react to emoji responses with different skin tones in a big way. The company is now telling everyone The Reporter Door.

Here’s how it works. Suppose your colleague dropped a Simpsons-yellow Flexible biceps emoji On a dull message celebrating someone’s monumental achievement. If your default skin tone for an emoji in Slack is a dark skin tone, and you mash that Simpsons-Yellow Flexible Biceps Emoji Reaction, a dark skin tone emoji will appear with yellow And Your response will be added to the total count.

My editors have allowed me to post this highly confidential message from our internal slack so that you can get an idea of ​​how grouped emoji responses look in practice:

I have seen emoji reaction groups today with four different skin tones, so this feature may possibly provide all six skin tone options.

This small change is a huge boon for inclusivity in my opinion. Now, instead of clicking in between clicking an emoji reaction that doesn’t match your favorite skin tone or adding a new one that better represents you, you can just punch an emoji reaction, any No matter what the skin tones are already, and know that you will see yourself representing them.

“We believe the future of work should be inclusive because it is important to our success and to our customers,” Slack said in a statement. “This update of how emojis appear under the message is part of an ongoing effort to help our customers express themselves in ways that feel most authentic to their experience. Diversity, engagement and relationships are important to our company values ​​and we are committed to ensuring that our product reflects this. “