Spotify is displayed prominently on workplace.com. How do you peeps like it? Does the company use it heavily or has its adoption fizzled? Blind tax: 300k/ 9yoe
How long has workplace been out to the public? First I’m hearing of it
I recently saw an article that McDonald's is onboarding for ~2M employees. It's been available as a service at least 5 yrs i think.
WP sucks ass. That combined with nobody using email there and instead only using the total dogshit messenger chat app thing made it a nightmare for me. It was so hard to keep up with the endless chats that should’ve otherwise been an email, and since the chat app doesn’t support threaded messages, it got so goddamn noisy. And WP itself was just so much noise. Even with muting many of the different groups, it was still too much. I hated the comms culture at meta and it was one of the reasons I left.
Chat rooms are good for few people ACTIVELY working on a single problem. I briefly worked at a startup that said a lot of their documentation existed in slack channels. Gross 🤮. It needs to be understood that once a chat msg is more than a day old, it will not be read. This is where groups and news feed/discovery+curation become important. I wish there was a BDT team group where I could go and post criticisms and highlight bugs. Tickets alone are no good for having a dialogue about improving a tool.
Also, email is terrible. It just piles up on itself. When you work with alarm, ticketing, version control, etc. Services that send email, just finding the useful emails is a challenge. I know people will say that you should apply rules; still too "dumb", a good rec engine is better (e.g. WP)
we don’t use it that heavily, mostly just for org chart and 1 to many comms/announcements from upper mgmt. edited to add: it’s totally fine for that purpose.
How about 1 to many from ICs ,like proposing conventions and frameworks so that people stop reinventing the wheel? Also, thanks for responding. It's your take that i want--a third party user that is not affiliated with meta for better or worse.
nope, it is generally only used for the purposes i originally mentioned.
I LOVE workplace, working in Meta and it was actually a factor of me returning back to work for the company however my satisfaction with it is because it has full adoption across the company - when I worked in another tech company who had it but where it had very minimal adoption (and enablement of features) it wasn’t a good experience so I understand the varied sentiment
This should be interesting considering that workplace is terrible.
I think it was Churchill that said, "workplace is the worst form of interoffice communication except for all the others" . In all seriousness, the most common complaint I've heard is that it is incessant. One needs to be disciplined in how they interact with it. However, at Amazon there just a complete absence of inter team communication. This results in zero feedback mechanism and the tools suck as a result.