Workplace by Facebook - Connect everyone in your company and turn ideas into action

Have not done too much research on it, but if Facebook uses it then it has to have some value. Looking forward to trying this out.

Awesome!!!

Still more of a internal social network than a chat client. Placing "Groups" in the application tab bar, does call out more Slack-like interaction though.

My biggest concern here for FB would be that people start associating Facebook with work (and all its stresses and obligations) and start to disengage from their personal Facebook accounts. I like having tools that leverage many of the good UX experiences I have on social media, but I appreciate the separation I have now between work and the rest of my life... This seems to accelerate the trend of Facebook as a utility beyond all else, but maybe that's the goal?

Workplace is not supposed to be your "go-to" work app. Facebook's long term directive is to be an infrastructure for your digital footprint, right? So 10 years from now, you likely will not be using Facebook, but you'll be using a Facebook-integrated product, and Workplace is a step into the business app market where Facebook previously had no value prop. Now it does, and in due time it'll be collecting an immense amount of data about you at the workplace from all your favorite work apps.

The pricing page is thoroughly ambiguous. $3 per year? $3 per month? $3/user/month? Also, the developers should probably know that since the landing page is built on wordpress.com, if you're logged in to wordpress.com the Wordpress banner partially covers their top navigation. I hope this goes somewhere, but seeing how slowly and poorly FB has developed FB Groups, I'm not going to get my hope too high.

I would rather be dead than use FB for work

I doubt companies would have workplace plus Slack, so in that sense they are direct competitors

one of the biggest seller vs slack: intercompany collaboration. slack forces you to internal only (for now)

Just seems like Facebook is all out of "ideas" if they aren't copying or acquiring a company ( to do more copying ) they are shitting bricks. "Have you ever asked anybody what their favorite color is? I'm sure you have and it's not the most interesting question, but how many times do you say Beige? Never because it's one of the worst colors, it's hardly even a color. its like oatmeal or sand...it's Beige. It's bland, now productivity software around empowering people in a workplace environment to be energised lol Why in heavens name is beige used like this...were the engineers in thinking jail?"