Google has apparently taken note of this and is pitting itself against Slack by taking two of the features from its corporate Workplace app suite — Chat and Rooms — and integrating them into its standard Gmail app.

According to Google, Chat is simply a way for two or more people to chat together without any formalities — for example, if you wanted to quickly talk about where you were going to meet for lunch, you’d create a group conversation among your friends.

If this sounds useful to you, then the first thing you need to do is activate Google Chat for your Gmail account.

On the bottom of the screen, instead of just Mail and Meet icons, you’ll now also have Chat and Rooms icons.

Your Gmail screen will refresh, and you will probably get a pop-up welcoming you to the “new Gmail.” Instead of the Meet and Hangouts boxes that used to be on the left-hand side of your Gmail screen, you’ll now have a Chat box, a Rooms box, and a Meet box.

Before we go into the specifics of how to use Google Chat, you may notice some other small differences after the refresh.