‘Facebook at Work’ will now allow users to
officially use the social media site at office
People usually refrain from using Facebook at work as users tend to waste time surfing through the social website but now, it has been reported that the company is secretly working on a website called “Facebook at Work” which will focus on building a professional network at your work place.
With ‘Facebook at
Work’, the company is clearly planning to challenge Google, LinkedIn and
Microsoft which are the popular ‘professional’ websites that are used in the
office.
‘Facebook at Work’
will not give users the option of browsing their friends news feeds or profiles
during work hours. It will instead be a work-related network which will offer
users the ability to chat with co-workers, work collaboratively on documents
and offer storage. Though the website will look similar to Facebook; allowing
users to check their newsfeed and messages, it will keep your social identity
separate from your work.
An anonymous source
from Faceook commented, “We are making work more fun and efficient by building
an at-work version of Facebook. We will touch code throughout the stack and on
all platforms.” (Web, iOS, Android, etc.)
According to TechCrunch, an
ex-Facebook employee said, “Most of their communication and planning is done
though Messages and Groups. It would be a pretty natural thing to try and
expose this way of using Facebook to get things done at the office to the rest
of the world. It’s a really fast and efficient way to get things done.”
This project began
early last year and is now being tested with companies ahead of the
official launch.
The corporate social
space has increasingly become more active in the recent past.
LinkedIn; which is widely
used for networking has 90 million active monthly users along with Google’s
Mail and Drive. Microsoft’s Outlook which is in most cases, the default client
for office emails and Yammer, the corporate social network
Microsoft bought for $1.2bn in 2012 are the dominant players in the space.
Recently, Google
launched Inbox, an application which combines your email accounts from
different service providers together under one roof in an attempt to attract
more users to use their service.
Facebook will not be
charging users for this service, as of now.
