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My guess is "Work" is a ploy to get Facebook un-blocked by corporate firewalls. The business functionality has already existed (since FB uses its own platform internally), so its comparatively minor in engineering effort.
Ha! Nice theory! No seriously, that's pretty brilliant.
We actually tried this for our company. Our initial response was that the product is a bad clone of the main FB (cloned maybe in React). Apart from that, it didn't make much sense to use FB@Work for anything. So we switched back to slack.
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But Slack is a chat service. I'm struggling to imagine what I would ever want to see in my Work News Feed.
Think knowledge base, all that information trapped inside Email which requires people to answer the same question 1000 times. Each one incomplete.
FB Work: Groups help you make decisions and keep your team on the same page.
Yammer: Organize all your team communication in one place with Yammer Groups. Create a single destination for your messages, files, and updates, where everyone has a view of what's going on without all the usual back-and-forth.
FB Work: Get through to the people you need right away with Work Chat.
Yammer: Spend less time crafting perfect emails, and more time doing. Conversations in Yammer make it easy to quickly share information on a topic, have active discussions around it, and agree on next steps.
FB Work: Find the answers, past group posts or the files you need using search.
Yammer: Find what you need, right when you need it. Yammer seamlessly enables connections to people and information from across your organization that you never knew existed, making it easier to move your work forward.
FB Work: As a Facebook at Work customer, you also have controls to manage your organization’s data how you see fit.
Yammer: Public Groups for working in the open; Private Groups for sensitive ideas. Safely collaborate with partners and customers with External Groups.
Yep. Yammer.
In one of the screenshots, it shows how many people are "following" an employee. This is reminiscent of Enron's peer-evaluation process commonly referred to as "rank and yank". Since employee evaluations were based on ratings made by their coworkers, this led to unpopular employees being fired, and other employees engaging in questionable business practices to stay on top. I can easily imagining the type of boss who…
It's also good to spot talent. We use this stuff for outreach and the "consulted", "informed" parts of RACI projects. Works well.
What could go wrong!
More and more, I push for more in-house and self-hosted services for things like this. If I‘m using this as a regular workflow, I want to know that it won‘t go away one day.
The problem with those self-hosted products is you're the person on hook to monitor, update, and maintain them. Much easier to let it be somebody else problem, especially since this stuff is like a AAA service.
This should have a [2015] or 2014 in the subject. This is not new, and is not really fully launched so its not really an interesting story for the most part. (0) http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/facebook-at-work/ (1) http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/14/facebook-at-work-ios-androi...
More and more, I push for more in-house and self-hosted services for things like this. If I‘m using this as a regular workflow, I want to know that it won‘t go away one day.