I was cynical about it to begin with, when it was just 'Facebook at Work' but I do believe it addresses a lot of the issues brought up in the blog post and the Workplace team are executing very well.
Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.
I don't think it's a Slack killer, as they both solve different problems in different ways, and Workplace is very much a 'big co, top down' approach.
I do think other existing collaboration tools have a lot to be worried about between Slack & Workplace though.
Last stat I heard was there is over 14k companies using it.
> Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.
This was the claim that was made when we tried out FB@W, but shortly after I created my work account (I don't have a personal account) my wife started getting friend suggestions for coworkers of mine she's never met. I never even used my @work account for looking at her FB account, wasn't friended to her, etc.
I think it was either a) harder to undo all the creepiness, or b) they didn't want to.
Sounds pretty decent! Would be interested in trying it if my employer didn't roll its own team chat for this purpose.
Maybe Slack should be worried too. They may have a tough road ahead growing into the valuation between Facebook Workplace, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian HipChat and Amazon Chime.
I was cynical about it to begin with, when it was just 'Facebook at Work' but I do believe it addresses a lot of the issues brought up in the blog post and the Workplace team are executing very well.
Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.
I don't think it's a Slack killer, as they both solve different problems in different ways, and Workplace is very much a 'big co, top down' approach.
I do think other existing collaboration tools have a lot to be worried about between Slack & Workplace though.
Last stat I heard was there is over 14k companies using it.