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Because having all your work related communication on Facebook's servers is certainly something you want as a company.
As opposed to them being on Google or Microsoft's?
(Microsoft does have some history of losing data, but that's not as malicious)
What I really want is a "linkedin at work" kind of product. In large cross functional organziations, it is often not easy to find who is the right person to talk to. For example, in a ecommerce firm, if you item description is wrong, you do not necessarily know whom to contact. I would like a product, internal to a company, where people write about all things they work on, in linkedin style summaries. Hopefully, this…
SharePoint 2010/2013/Online do this, for those corporations who are immersed in the Microsoft ecosystem. If you have SharePoint now and you're not getting that benefit, the people who deployed it neglected to plan, and likely didn't involve mid-level management in a governance and architecture review process.
Organizations that want an internal social network should also evaluate Jive. The UI isn't as slick as Facebook but overall I've been happy with it. https://www.jivesoftware.com
This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.
Do you have any sources? Not trying to be a dick but this sounds interesting.
Example quote: "... interruptions, even short ones, increase the total time required to complete a task by a significant amount."
Including a book I'm going to check out, "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World"
All of the use cases for this, Slack more or less solves, which Events being a Slack integration away. That being said, outside of the HN Community and outside of Tech savvy companies who know and prefer Slack, it's not completely useless. It's sure as hell better than Email groups and Calendar events in my opinion.