In the dynamic world of everlasting enormous competition, Facebook has launched an enterprise version product, Workplace by Facebook. It enables effective communication across all levels of employees within organizations. It has its own visual brand identity using a different grey color and artistically written ‘W’ logo .
The workplace is a collaborative space with a look, feel, and function similar to the consumer version of Facebook. It is a completely separate product from personal Facebook and provides a totally dedicated and secure space for companies to integrate. Begun testing since 2015 and finally launched in October 2016, could successfully attract a whopping number of 30000 customers spanning across various industries and hoping for many more to join. Has an edge to be adapted easily by any organization due to its similar Facebook features like messages, news feed, groups, and calls. The facebook live feature is also available in Workplace to enable the organizations broadcast to its employees instantly.
Due to the immense awareness of Facebook across the globe, Workplace is expected to be accepted widely. This business software is updated with 50 new app integrations categorized into 14 different groups. The details can be found in www.facebook.com/workplace/integrations. Some of the commonly used tools include SurveyMonkey, Service Now, Bloomberg, ADP Virtual Assistant, Workday, JiraCloud, SharePoint, and Smartsheet. It not only integrates with cloud platforms including Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Salesforce but also synchronizes with the mobile tools to be ranked high among the enterprise collaboration tools like Slack, Skype for business, etc.
Workplace is a tool which lets professionals to effectively communicate via instant chat, voice and video calls, share files, live video streaming, conferences. It can be accustomed to organizations of any size. The amazing auto-translate feature improves the global connectivity by enabling you to communicate in 46 languages with zero effort. Its released in two versions – Standard and Premium. While the standard version is available free for all organizations, premium version charges a nominal cost of $3 every month per active user. Premium usage is offered with a 90-day free trial. Organizations with more than 5000 users can avail discounts over the charges leveraged. The premium version is availed at no cost by non-profit organizations and educational institutions.
Workplace standard has core features for free. It enables independent employee to own and administer their content posted and shared. The account can be deleted and deactivated by themselves anytime.
Premium customers get additional customized features like customer support, administer controls, account management, access to integration APIs for bots, e-discovery and policy enforcement. The company owns and administers the workplace community and data. Employer owes the right to delete or deactivate any account of their employee.
The account id of Workplace and Facebook are unique. Users can have their content shared separately. The employer can never see the content of his employee’s personal account unless its available for public view. And so is the privacy of each and every user pristine.
One can only create a Workplace account using a private email domain belonging to a specific individual. However, the email domain can’t have already been claimed by another Workplace community. You can’t sign up for Workplace using a public email domain, such as gmail.com and yahoo.com, etc. You also can’t sign up for Workplace using a generic email address, such as info@, admin@, sales@, etc.
To explore more about workplace, the team has come up with a transformation centre, help.transformyourworkplace.com
Incase you are held up while using the workplace, the help support is always at your reach with just a click at https://workplace.facebook.com/help/
