HA NOI (Biz Hub) – Giant social network Facebook this week introduced Workplace by Facebook, which is available to any company or organisation that wants to use it.

More than 1,000 organisations 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, United States, Norway, United Kingdom and France.

"Some people spend their entire workday on the go, on their mobile phone… and Workplace's mission is to help them stay connected," according to the social network.

Facebook incorporated its best features into Workplace, whether it is 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 users can chat with colleagues across the world in real time, host a virtual brainstorming session in a group, or follow along with the CEO's presentation on Facebook Live.

Workplace-only features that companies can benefit from are dashboards with analytics and integrations with single sign-on, in addition to identifying providers that allow companies to more easily integrate Workplace with their existing IT systems.

Multi-Company Groups and shared spaces, allow employees from different organisations to work together and to extend collaboration beyond the company in a safe and secure way. These will be rolled out to all customers in the coming weeks.

Workplace will be priced competitively, which means, companies only pay for people who are actively using the product. - VNS