Workplace by Facebook

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Workplace

Type	Collaborative software
Owner	Facebook
Website	www.workplace.com

Workplace is an enterprise connectivity platform developed by Facebook, Inc. and featuring tools like groups, instant messaging and News Feed, leading by Julien Codorniou Vice President of Workplace & Karandeep Anand Head of Workplace.^[1]

History

Workplace was first announced^[2] on January 14, 2015. It launched in beta as Facebook at Work with customers including the Royal Bank of Scotland^[3] before officially launching in October 2016.

Facebook recognized the importance and need for a Workplace product in 2011,^[4] when the company began using Facebook groups for business purposes internally for collaboration and communication. Alongside Facebook Messenger, these private groups helped Facebook employees work more efficiently together by reducing their reliance on email and other Software as a Service tools.^{[citation needed]}

Features

• News Feed: The News Feed is a scrolling stream of posts^[5] that uses Facebook's machine learning algorithms to keep people up to date with relevant company announcements.
• Groups: Groups are shared collaboration spaces^[6] where people can upload documents, leave comments, manage projects, and get work done with colleagues.
• Multi-Company Collaboration: Workplace enables people to collaborate with external teams, partners or suppliers from within their Workplace account using secure and private groups, chats, and video calls.
• Workplace Chat: Workplace Chat is an instant messaging tool that allows text, voice calls or video conferencing^[7] with up to 50 colleagues.
• Live Video: Live Video enables users to broadcast live directly from their mobile devices^[8] and receive real-time feedback in the form of comments and reactions.
• Auto Translate: Auto Translate uses the same machine learning technology that serves up 4.5 billion translations every day on Facebook to provide one-click translations^[9] in 46 languages.
• People Directory: Find colleagues, build connections, and collaborate more effectively with a searchable database of profiles^[10] customized to individual organizations..

Pricing

Workplace has three pricing options, Essential, Advanced and Enterprise. Workplace Essential is free, while Workplace Advanced is $4 USD per active user, per month and Enterprise is $8 USD per month per user. Workplace Advanced is also offered free to registered non-profits and staff of educational institutions. There is also a Front line Worker add-on for $1.50 USD per person per month for Advanced and Enterprise options.

Workplace Premium customers act as data controllers and appoint Facebook as a data processor under the Workplace Agreement. These customers own and administer their account data. They can modify, delete or export it at any time.

Security

Workplace holds the following compliance certificates:

• ISO 27018 – Information Security Management
• ISO 27001 – Information Security Management
• SOC 2 – Trust Services Principles
• SOC 3 – Service Organization Controls
• EU/US Privacy Shield Data Privacy Practices

Workplace and GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standardizes data protection rules across the European Union (EU). It came into effect on 25 May 2018. GDPR builds on existing data protection law, while also adding new requirements. Most of the GDPR's requirements fall on data controllers. Workplace Premium customers act as data controllers and appoint Facebook as a data processor under the Workplace Agreement. Facebook and Workplace comply with all applicable data protection laws.

Workplace and Facebook

While Workplace accounts are set up and run separately^[11] from Facebook accounts, Workplace benefits from much of the underlying technology and innovation that powers Facebook.

Data Centers: Workplace data is stored across 12 Facebook-owned data centers^[12] around the world. Because Facebook owns or leases all the land surrounding these data centers, it can monitor the physical integrity of the area and ensure the secure destruction of electronic media containing data after use.

AI: Workplace benefits from Facebook's leadership^[13] in AI research.^[14] AI makes Workplace “more meaningful"^[15] by using machine learning to sort the most relevant information in the News Feed and make intelligent recommendations while 'downranking' less valuable information.

Safety Check for Workplace: In October 2018, Workplace announced the launch^[16] of Safety Check. Originally developed by Facebook engineers after the 2011 Japanese tsunami, Safety Check for Facebook is a way to let friends and family know you’re safe in a crisis, and check on others in the affected area. With Safety Check for Workplace, organizations can identify employees who may be affected by a crisis, send multiple modes of notification, and monitor responses. Safety Check was the most-requested feature from Workplace customers and has been activated by Delta Air Lines (during Hurricane Florence and the Hokkaido earthquake).

Reception

Workplace has an aggregated rating of 4 stars from 1,379 reviews on G2,^[17] and an aggregated rating of 4 stars from 103 reviews on Gartner PeerInsights.^[18] It has been praised as a tool for internal communication^[19] and collaboration, but critics have noted^[20] that it lacks some project management functionality.

Customers

Workplace is used by over 30,000 organizations around the world. Organizations using Workplace include Starbucks,^[21] Walmart,^[22] Virgin Atlantic,^[23] Heineken,^[24] Royal Bank of Scotland,^[25] Campbell^[26] and Booking.com.^[27]

As of March 2020, there are 5 million paying users^[28], but the total number of users, both paid and unpaid, hasn't been disclosed.

Workplace for Good

Workplace for Good was launched in June 2018 to provide a free version of Workplace Premium for registered non-profits and staff of educational institutions. Organizations using workplace for Good include WWF,^[29] Save the Children, UNICEF, United Way, Boy Scouts of America, Comic Relief, Australian Catholic University and Norwegian Refugee Council.

Integrations

Workplace integrates with over 50 popular enterprise tools. The growing collection of integrations are designed to help users share, stay current, and simplify complicated internal processes.

At the F8 Conference in May 2018, Workplace announced the launch^[30] of the Integrations Directory^[31] for Workplace Premium customers. This includes integrations with popular SaaS tools like Jira Cloud by Atlassian, Microsoft Sharepoint, ServiceNow, Adobe Sign, SurveyMonkey, Google Drive, Zoom and DropBox.^[32]

Partners

Workplace works with a large number of service partners across the globe.^[33] These partners help Workplace customers with many elements of their Workplace deployment, including planning, use cases, roll out, change management, training and custom integrations.

See also

• Collaboration software

References

External links

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