I think the familiarity people already have with facebook UI will be one of it's big advantages over Slack. I heard one person say Slack will be used by Tech people and workplace by the rest of the world.
The main difficulty I have seen so far is people not being comfortable with the segregation of work and private profiles, will be interesting to see what happens there.
Also it will be interesting to see if Facebook opens up this platform to chatbots. If so there could be a massive opportunity here. For example a bot could keep a record of who’s in the office, which meetings they are attending (with a tie-in to Outlook or Google Calendar), who’s attending a conference, or if anyone has important milestones coming up. Similarly bots could be used for HR management. For example something like https://www.producthunt.com/tech... for new employee onboarding
Sounds like another place to cat GIFs and not do work.. when will people focus on productivity tools and making them better because they all suck. FB collecting more data to serve more ads...
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I have one team that is very tethered to email and at first blush Workplace from FB seemed like a good way to ease them into real collaboration with a familiar interface. I would still recommend it, but would have liked the option to interface with workplace from my existing account.
Pros:
It's a familiar interface if you use Facebook
Cons:
I did not like that I had to bifurcate to use this tool. I get why, but not all teams are enterprise teams.
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I have one team that is very tethered to email and at first blush Workplace from FB seemed like a good way to ease them into real collaboration with a familiar interface. I would still recommend it, but would have liked the option to interface with workplace from my existing account.
Pros:It's a familiar interface if you use Facebook
Cons:I did not like that I had to bifurcate to use this tool. I get why, but not all teams are enterprise teams.