Facebook at Work is an enterprise version of the social network that Facebook had designed for businesses that want to build social networks for their employees.
And FB just signed up 30,000 employees at the Royal Bank of Scotland with plans for 100,000 employees by 2016. BTW, How does a bank employ “100,000” people?? That’s a discuss for another day, I guess!
Iyammi!!! Almost everyone in the world owns a FB account and can use FB very easily. An enterprise version of FB with similar features will make adoption even more easier and effortless. Look at it this way: If FB ‘wins’ and companies begin to use collaborative features such groups, text, audio and video chats, file sharing, etc, then it will be beginning of the doom of companies/products such as Slack, Asana, Google Hangouts, Skype, Microsoft Lync, etc.
Actually, the Microsoft equivalent you wanted to mention is Yammer - https://www.yammer.com/, not Lync. This is interesting news though, didn’t see it coming. Also, the Nigerian name on the mobile screenshot.
Hi @xolubi. I actually wanted to mention Lync. It’s a very cool collaborative tool which is very common at large companies. We used it at my former company. The first time I saw Slack, I called it an improved version of Lync. Thanks for mentioning Yammer. Hearing it for the first time.
I know what you meant. It was just a coy way of letting you know which one of the two is more relevant to the comparison a la “full blown” enterprise social network
Hmm, some companies already create Facebook groups for work social events and new recruits etc. So there is a slight potential.
However, I generally don’t think this is a good idea. A lot of companies ban social network sites at work for the sole purpose of reducing distractions (and possibly increasing productivity).
Allowing Facebook at work just allows people to check the site without worrying their boss is looking over because hey, it’s fine now.
Now I am very inclined to think that I am wrong because Facebook does hire very smart people and they would have thought about this. So I would wait to see how this turns out. But I am highly skeptical it will fly.
First, this is a customised version of Facebook for companies. Your network will consist of your colleagues only. I really don’t think it will be of more distraction than other existing collaboration tools.
A working-class person spends more quality time with his/her colleagues than he/she does with his spouse/family. Looking at the positive side, I think this will improve bonding in the workplace which can enhance productivity.
@sarutobi87@ADT I guess it starts with looking it from the perspective of an enterprise solution, which it really is; as against the public social network. Also, if facebook is blocked on your corporate network, the network admin can whitelist yourcompany.facebook.com. Hopefully, authentication and all that goes through the subdomain as well.
Okay I get your point here. As @xolubi aptly put it, a certain domain name for work can be whitelisted at your workplace. Which makes sense.
Same profile, different place. Hopefully the designs and layout have some obvious distinctions (like the change in colour in the first screenshot) because God forbid you put “I hate my boss” thinking you’re on your normal social profile at home.
Anyway, let me not speculate. We’ll see how this goes.
Now it’s easier for network admins to just add company.facebook.com in their allowed domains list and block the main Facebook.com domain.
No need to worry about employees wasting time on public Facebook anymore.
But there’s even more to it,
You can have verified status for people who claim certain identities / affiliations to a company/brand.
You have the ability to promote your company / brand with the full strength of all your employees Facebook (social media) accounts.
The list goes on with more intelligent features this FB would spot.
