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‘Workplace’: Facebook launches intra-office network

The service will only enable the transfer of intra-office data, which will remain fully owned by the business

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A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of the logo of the European Union in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 15, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS

LONDON: Social network giant Facebook launched the 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. It is the first Facebook product launched outside the United States. Workplace was developed outside of the Facebook ecosystem and remains completely separate from the social network - even using grey as the dominant colour, rather than Facebook’s distinct blue. The service will only enable the transfer of intra-office data, which will remain fully owned by the business.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 12^th, 2016.

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