Workplace, by Facebook
(formerly known as Facebook at Work) is launching today and will be available
to any organization who wants access. Organizations will apply through the
Workplace website and will be connected to a member of the Workplace
team.
Workplace
by Facebook is the business version of Facebook that allows companies to build
more productive, efficient and collaborative workplaces. It is easy-to-use,
secure and available on desktop and mobile devices.
The platform helps
organizations collaborate better and makes it easier to get things done, all
while using familiar Facebook features like News Feed, Groups, Chat, Live Video
and more, and is mobile-first, so employees can use it to work with their
colleagues from anywhere in the world.
More than 1,000
organizations are using Workplace worldwide, on every continent except
Antarctica, and more than 100,000 groups already in use.
- Top 5 countries
using Workplace are India, Norway, US, UK and France.
- Workplace is being
used by organizations in every single continent except Antarctica.
- Workplace fulfills a
key gap in the market – for people who don’t work at offices or at desks.
These are retail workers, ship crews, baristas – all of whom did not have
access to traditional workplace tools, but because our product is mobile –
are driving adoption.
With today’s
announcement, Facebook is also sharing a few other new exciting updates:
- Competitive
Pricing. Facebook is announcing a competitive pricing
model that is based on a monthly fee per active user (so companies only
pay for what they use). The more active users an organization has, the
less they pay per user.
- $3
USD first 1,000 monthly active users
- $2
USD 1,001 – 10,000 monthly active users
- $1
USD 10,000+ monthly active users
- Product
enhancement
- Added
significant number of features over the last 18 months including
Multi-company Groups, Live, Reactions, Auto-translate, Video and group
audio calling in Work Chat, Trending posts, Search filters and others
- Multi-Company
Groups. These are shared groups that allow
employees from multiple organizations to work together. All group members
must be part of a Workplace community, and members from other companies
won't be able to see any information from your company outside of the
multi-company groups they are in with you.
- The
Workplace Partner Program. This
is a global ecosystem of partners, like Deloitte or Microsoft, to help customers
get the most out of their Workplace. (For more information on a recent
Deloitte survey of C-level executives that shows why Workplace is
important to the future of work, see deloittedigital.com/us/workplace.)
Read more about today’s announcement on Facebook Newsroom post here or on Workplace’s website workplace.fb.com.
About
Facebook
Founded
in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the
world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with
friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world, and to share and
express what matters to them. Facebook has 1.04 billion daily active users on
average worldwide and 7.2 million daily visitors from Nigeria.
About
Red Media Africa
Red
Media Africa (www.redmediaafrica.com [2]) is the PR &
Empowerment Marketing division under the parent brand, RED. It focuses on using
inspiration, empowerment and action to help brands and organisations connect
with their audiences, enhance their bottom-lines and lead in their industries.
It has 6 major practice areas: Corporate Practice, Technology Practice, SME
Practice, Governance Practice, Faith Practice and the International Practice -
with work for brands across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. RED owns
the continent's largest portfolio of youth media brands. Its Content Division
holds brands across TV, radio, online and events including Y!
Magazine,YNaija.com, Rubbin' Minds, #YTech100 and the The RED Summit. It also
anchors a development firm, The Future Project, which projects include Africa's
leading youth platform, The Future Awards Africa, HowCanIGetInvolved.com and
Aiki.ng, which is run in conjunction with Microsoft.
