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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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I take it you've never used Yammer, which was created as "Facebook for work" seven years ago. The Yammer news feed is actually a great way to stay generally aware of what's going on in your company across lots of different groups or functions. I'm an engineer and its nice to see what sales and customer support are worried about from time to time and occasionally chimein when I can be helpful. At my company we use cha…
This is the first time I've ever heard someone speak positively of Yammer.
I'm curious though, what aspects of it do you usually hear people complaining about?
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…
Actually, a big part of the utility of Yammer is early detection of crazy people. It's also good to spot talent. We use this stuff for outreach and the "consulted", "informed" parts of RACI projects. Works well.
So... Yammer? 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 crafti…
I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add the…
So... Yammer? 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 crafti…
For better of worse, my prejudice of facebook is that it is an outstanding source of the following types of content:
Humblebrag b.s. instagram photos
passive aggressive shitposting about politics
I can use social networks at work- but if they actually brought facebook in and demanded that we used it, I might consider quitting. I'd probably write a python script to repost random technical shit from a reasonable set of Twitter sources. But no way would I be happy about bringing facebook into my office.
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Actually, a big part of the utility of Yammer is early detection of crazy people. It's also good to spot talent. We use this stuff for outreach and the "consulted", "informed" parts of RACI projects. Works well.
What are the situations where Yammer can help in terms of detecting troublesome employees? That's an interesting use case / benefit.
Specifically, most of the time someone would make a group for a study group and then everyone would use the group page to post meeting times, relevant files, etc. Group chats were used for quick communication, etc.
The benefit this has over something like Slack is that it is something everyone is used to and comfortable with already. People, for the most part, understand what a group page is and how to post on one. People get how to send an IM or start a group chat. There is virtually no learning curve.