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Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by lazzlazzlazz »

heydenberk wrote: post #3

I dread one day having to limit job searches to places that don't make me use my private social networking account to do business.

The Workplace account exists completely separately of your private Facebook account. Can you point to specific evidence that suggests they're the same/linked or do you just "feel" like they would be?

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Post by benevol »

So now employers are being told to have their employees put business data (potentially even sensitive or secret) on US servers that are "owned" by the US government (see PRISM, etc.), while everybody today knows that NSA surveillance data is being used to gain economic advantages for the country.

How stupid do you think the rest of the world is?

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Post by juliuss »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #10

Is it actually $3 for the organization? It isn't clear if this is per-seat or per-organization.

I imagine it's 3$ per user, seeing as the pricing decreases based on how many users you have. It's also what TechCrunch seems to have assumed: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/10/facebook-workplace/

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Post by dbg31415 »

Yes, just what I want... more crap from Facebook.

I've been so very satisfied with how much of my personal data they sell to marketers thus far, I really want them to start tracking me at work too.

Hopefully they will pair the launch with an aggressive sales campaign targeted at people in HR so I won't get a say in the matter and it'll just be rolled out for my coworkers without our input. That would be just swell.

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Post by timanglade »

Considering the backlash against Slack [0], it’ll be interesting to see if Messenger’s model of more “atomic” conversations will create less interruptions. Slack (much like IRC) really contributes to an expectation of continuous conversation throughout the day/night (although not all people deal with it that way). In comparison, Messenger (and other chat apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, etc.) seem to be more designed towards short chats about specific topics, while still allowing for deeper, longer conversations (even larger groups) if needed. Could be a huge win.

Beyond that, am I the only one surprised at Live being half-heartedly pushed as part of Workplace? The use-cases they give seem liminal at best, and even the mockups they made are really half-assed. Seems like even Facebook Inc doesn’t believe in Live’s potential in the workplace, which seems narrow-sighted. Sure, Live might not be a great internal corporate tool, but it could be a great replacement for external webinars, webcasts & trainings.

[0]: http://www.slacklash.com/

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Post by markwillis82 »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #10

Is it actually $3 for the organization? It isn't clear if this is per-seat or per-organization.

This is buried in the faq as I was interested in this too: https://workplace.fb.com/faq/

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How much does this cost? The pricing model is based on a monthly fee per active user

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