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Facebook launches intra-office Workplace platform

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LONDON Oct 11, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Julien Codorniou, Director of Facebook at Work, speaks during an event to launch the social media company's latest product u201cWorkplace,, central London on Oct. 10, 2016. (AFP Photo)
Julien Codorniou, Director of Facebook at Work, speaks during an event to launch the social media company's latest product u201cWorkplace,, central London on Oct. 10, 2016. (AFP Photo)
by Oct 11, 2016 12:00 am

Social network giant Facebook on Monday launched new global product Workplace, a platform that it hopes will replace intranet, mailbox and other internal communication tools used by businesses worldwide.

The platform allows employees to collaborate in real time and is intended to compete with similar office communication products including Microsoft's Yammer, Salesforce's Chatter, and Slack.

The Silicon Valley company developed the concept, previously called "Facebook at Work", two years ago in its London office and has since tested the product with 1,000 companies worldwide. It is the first Facebook product launched outside the United States.

"We combined the things that already exist into a single tool that will allow employees to display a wall of information, like on their private profiles," Julien Codorniou, director of Workplace, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Workplace was developed outside of the Facebook ecosystem and remains completely separate from the social network - even using grey as the dominant color, rather than Facebook's distinctive blue. It is accessible on a computer or phone without a Facebook account and employees can access the platform using their work email address. The service will only enable the transfer of intra-office data, which will remain fully owned by the business.

"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," said the company.

"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."

Subscribers will pay one to three euros ($1.10 to $3.30) per connected employee, depending on the size of the business, while nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and educational establishments will receive the service for free.

"At the moment we have 1,000 companies that have already switched to Workplace before the worldwide launch, creating 100,000 groups," said Codorniou.

Early adopters include multinationals Danone and Booking.com, financial institutions such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and NGOs including Oxfam and Save the Children, said Facebook.

Mobile-first business

Danone, which has seen 5,000 employees test the platform over 15 months, aims to move its workforce of 100,000 onto the service by the end of the first quarter next year, said company executive Francisco Camacho. For Camacho, the key benefit is the mobile-first approach. "People are more mobile now, so when they have the platform in their hands, they are able to connect with each other faster, to share ideas faster and react faster," he told AFP.

Craig Le Clair, an analyst at research company Forrester, said Facebook will need to shift cultural perceptions of the company in order for Workplace to be a success. "Facebook has never been about getting work done but quite the opposite - how do I enrich my life through better connections to friends and relatives?" he said.

The top five countries using Workplace so far are Britain, France, India, Norway and the U.S. "There is a potential worldwide market of 2.5 billion employees, who have no similar product to choose from," said Codorniou. "Our ambition is to connect the world, which has to happen through the world of business," he added.

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