At Facebook, we’ve
had an internal version of our app to help run our company for many years.
We’ve seen that just as Facebook keeps you connected to friends and family, it
can do the same with coworkers. We started testing a version of Facebook for
the workplace with a few other organizations over a year ago.
Now, more than
1,000 organizations around the world use Workplace (formerly known as Facebook
at Work). People have created nearly 100,000 groups and the top five countries
using Workplace are India, the US, Norway, UK and France. We’re excited by the
progress we’ve made and the level of adoption and engagement we’re seeing.
So today we’re
announcing that Workplace will now be available to any company or organization
that wants to use it.
For
Everyone, Around the World
The workplace is
about more than just communicating between desks within the walls of an office.
Some people spend their entire workday on the go, on their mobile phone. Others
spend all day out in the field, or on the road. We’ve been amazed by the breadth
of organizations who’ve embraced Workplace — from a shipping company that can
now connect with their ship crews using Live video, to a bank that now uses
Workplace instead of fax machines and newsletters to share updates with its
distributed bank branches. Large multinational companies like Danone, Starbucks
and Booking.com, international nonprofits such as Oxfam, and regional leaders
such as YES Bank in India and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore
have all embraced Workplace. People work in different ways, around the world,
and Workplace’s mission is to help them stay connected.
The
Best of Facebook, Plus New Features
We’ve brought the
best of Facebook to the workplace — whether it’s basic infrastructure such as
News Feed, or the ability to create and share in Groups or via chat, or useful
features such as Live, Reactions, Search and Trending posts. This means you can
chat with a colleague across the world in real time, host a virtual brainstorm
in a Group, or follow along with your CEO’s presentation on Facebook Live.
We’ve also built
unique, Workplace-only features that companies can benefit from such as a
dashboard with analytics and integrations with single sign-on, in addition to
identity providers that allow companies to more easily integrate Workplace with
their existing IT systems.
Today we’re also
announcing Multi-Company Groups, shared spaces that allow employees from
different organizations to work together, to extend collaboration beyond your
company in a safe and secure way. These will be rolling out to all customers in
the coming weeks.
The new global and
mobile workplace isn’t about closed-door meetings or keeping people separated
by title, department or geography. Organizations are stronger and more
productive when everyone comes together. For more information, or to get
Workplace by Facebook for your company, visit workplace.fb.com. Or stay in
touch on our Facebook Page at facebook.com/workplace.
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