Here is Facebook Workplace, work becomes a social and shared – The Republic

THE LAST curve has changed its name – Facebook Workplace in place of Facebook at Work – but the substance is not changed. The social in blue has launched its challenge to the social network for the office, from LinkedIn through Slack, Yammer, Convo, Salesforce Chatter and other platforms that promise to make us work better. The basis for a close comparison between platforms, we are all considering – as we are told with a certain pride Facebook – that has the Beta version of social office includes at the moment more than 1000 organizations all over the world in all the continents except Antarctica and more than 100 thousand groups are already active. The 5 nations where it is the most used are India, Norway, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. “We have for many years an internal version of our application to help us to manage our company”, we read in the press of the social. “That, just like Facebook allows you to stay in touch with friends and family, can do the same with colleagues. Over a year ago, we began testing a version of the social for the place of work with some other companies”.

Facebook then enter today’s Workplace – how to explain – to bridge the gap in the market between companies and those who do not work in the office or at the desk. It is workers in the retail trade, the crews of the ships, the bartenders, who had access to the tools of traditional labor. This social has all of Facebook’s original and some other function. Helps organisations to collaborate using features of Facebook are already familiar, such as News Feed, Groups, Chat, Live video, and many others. And it is primarily a mobile product-first, in this way, employees can use it to work with their colleagues from any place of the world. “To connect everyone in your company and transform ideas into actions, with discussion groups, a News Feed, personalized, audio and video calls, you can work together and do more.”

Multinational companies such as Danone and Booking.com, non-profit organizations, such as international, Oxfam, and companies such as YES Bank in India, and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore have adopted Workplace using basic functions of Facebook, like News Feed, or the ability to create and share in Groups, or via live chat, the Live, the Reactions, the Search and Trending back, But also unique functions, such as a panel with tools for analysis and integration with authentication, single, in addition to identity providers that allow businesses to integrate more easily the Workplace to their existing IT systems. In the next few weeks will be available also the groups multi-company, shared spaces that allow employees of different organizations to work together.

As to prices, the social Zuckerberg announced a policy based on a monthly fee per active user (for which companies only pay for what you actually use). The most active users will have an organization, the less you will pay for each: $ 3 for the first 1,000 monthly active users, $ 2 from 1.001 to 10,000 monthly active users, 1 dollars for more than 10,000 monthly active users. It is the first service of Facebook for a fee, where the social so far, it has generated earnings with advertising.

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