Case Study: Canva saves 63.75 hours a week with Slack’s Workflow Builder

With Slack’s Workflow Builder, Canva’s finance team turns to async standups and saves 63.75 hours a week

Canva, the visual communication platform with over 2,000 globally distributed employees and 60 million monthly users, needed a better way to keep teams aligned as it scaled rapidly. Its finance team was spending about 1.5 hours per person each week in stand-ups (67.5 hours total), creating friction across time zones and reducing time for higher-impact work.

By adopting Slack’s Workflow Builder, Canva moved to asynchronous stand-ups using emoji-triggered forms, automated Google Sheets entries and in-channel notifications, cutting status updates to 5 minutes per person per week and saving 63.75 hours weekly. The change reduced meetings and context-switching, freed time for impactful projects, and improved cross-functional collaboration and team engagement.

Canva

Chantal Plank

Procurement Operations