Facebook at Work: a planned launch in a few weeks

Facebook at Work, the business version of the social network, should now be available in a few weeks. Tested since the beginning of the year, this social solution for communication and online collaboration aims to be more convenient, more reliable and more interesting than Salesforce Chatter or Yammer Microsoft.
Facebook at Work, an alternative to chat, Slack, Skype and Yammer
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook at Work late 2014. The application was subsequently tested in private beta in January 2015. This is an alternative to offerings such as online chat, Slack, Skype and Yammer. Facebook at work is intended primarily for professionals. The offer is designed to meet the needs of businesses. Indeed, with Facebook at work, companies can not only communicate and collaborate online, but it is also possible to create message flow dedicated to particular tasks, create groups, events .... These include here an instant messaging tool with support for voice and video over IP.

An available by next month

According to the website The information, Facebook at Work should make its official debut next month. The offer will be available with an active user payment. According indeed the testimony of a company participating in the beta phase, the group would have evoked a rate between 1 and 5 dollars per each user. For comparison, Slack falls 15 dollars per person for its premium service.

There are many reasons for choosing Facebook at Work. For example, evokes a closeness to the classic version of Facebook. Everyone is doing if not win here. The social network users see themselves as ambassadors or influencers, Facebook at Work in business, while companies will be delighted that their employees surf on a version of Facebook dedicated to the work and not leisure.

The application would have already won a customer size!

According to information circulating, Facebook at Work, in its beta version would have already won the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The British bank had begun to test the application in early summer. In March, it seems that 30 000 of its employees had access to the service. The professional version of the Facebook social network should be deployed if the rest of the hundred of thousands of employees that include establishing by the end of 2016.