Facebook’s Nicola Mendelsohn has announced a 50% increase in UK with the 2017 opening of new London headquarters. There are a number of projects ongoing, but it is specifically the home of Facebook Workplace, the company’s work media (’collaboration’) solution, competing with Slack, Microsoft, and Google.
Facebook to increase UK employees by 500 in 2017 – BBC News
Engineers at Facebook’s London office are continuing the development of Workplace, a platform devised to improve communications between workers within a business, launched last month.
Although Facebook calls the messaging system within Workplace ‘work chat’ it isn’t oriented around channels (chat rooms), like Slack and Microsoft Teams. It’s more of a group messaging play.
I need to get a deeper demo, I guess, but Facebook’s scale is a real challenge for Slack, outside the tech community.
More to follow.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/153470802747
