Only if you use plain IRC. If you use something like irccloud, that is prevented. Which can be thought of as a "webwrapper" for IRC. I have been using it for some time now and I enjoy it.
(I'm not affiliated with irccloud in any way)
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IRCCloud's free plan is much worse than even Slack's, their paid tiers are more expensive per-user IIRC, and their UI isn't quite as polished.
I was not trying to compare it to slack. I was merely pointing out that IRC does not need to mean "plain IRC".
I have been using Slack for about a year now at work and I think it's great. I don't think irccloud would be a suitable replacement either :-)
Well, then you're not using IRC anymore, but some service which by chance uses IRC as Backend