I used to like using FB 10 years ago. The way we use workplace now seems a lot like how facebook was used back then; only it feels a lot more forced than like a thing to be doing. I mean, it's like ship a feature write a post, change a gk write a post, have a question write a post. WhatsApp and Instagram works very well for me, thank you! Why do we force workplace on ourselves? N.B.: Putting this in tech lounge so that any other companies using workplace can also respond.
Believe me, it’s infinitely better than the hackshit combo of Slack + Jira + Email that everyone else uses. Workplace is awesome because it’s like an internal blog, no where else I’ve worked had that. Plus meme groups and group messages are the bomb.
I really like the async nature of it as compared to Slack. However, There’s a huge amount of junk/noise which is distracting and I think there’s also a bad misalignment of expectations around product feedback and support.
I’ve made a ton of “friends” before all new hires started to come in with their workplace accounts. What happen to “bring your authentic self to work”? Is there any truly innovative stuff ever came out of the London office?
Consider yourself lucky the you didn't need to use Yammer
Workplace is awesome. I've use yammer, jive and slack before and this is the best experience so far.
#fileatask @!!n00b Stop forcing Workplace on us
I fucking hate Workplace. I hope Fb kills it soon
Workplace emails are obnoxious since they are... [open to read more]
Like any sort of feed, it's good if you get the filters/prefs right. I didn't like it at first, but now think it's pretty valuable.
Does it have filters? I thought it was the feed magic sauce
The groups you join, the groups you mark as priority, the people you explicitly follow. It can still get noisy, but I think it's a very good tool on top of Work Chat. I couldn't imagine chat/email only.
We use it at Spotify. It’s fine for big-ish announcements from leadership/upper management. Using fb live to broadcast video is nicer than our old video portal. Other than that it’s almost entirely filled with new hire announcements. I hear it’s used heavily at fb and can’t imagine what that would be like. But it’s a decent supplement to slack and google groups.