I’ll be honest when Meta launched Workplace right after some privacy issues I thought the product was doomed. However, with the news of McDonalds striking a deal to use Workplace and with Walmart already onboard, they have the 2 biggest employers using it (McDonald’s employees are in franchises though so that may mean not all franchises will use it?). So the question is, is or will Workplace be a success?
Also, for those that use it, do you enjoy it / find it useful?
Better than email that’s for sure
I hate it Imagine having an internal news feed where ppl keep posting and bragging about what they did at work today, stealing credit from others Toxic
Oh god fuck that 🤣
No fan of workplace. But, based on my experience, I feel like earlier people used to brag through bulk emails. Now they are doing it through a fancy workplace post.
Not an expert on the product, but the internal sentiment seems to be Workplace > Slack > Workplace chat
Is meta using slack anywhere?
I've found workplace to be vastly superior to slack/teams/gchat
Could you share what did you find it better in?
Groups/posts is a vastly better format than just shoving everything in a chat. Information is accessible, followable, and you can easily tune in only to what you want.
Nestle uses it too
It should be a success. Most companies are wasting time and effort in trying to recreate Workplace via email or Slack.
I’ve heard some bad sides about it to. Such that with email at least you see things in chrono order and mark as opened and then you’re done looking at it. Where as with workplace things come in different order and you have to scroll and never know when you’re done. Also comments come in at any time so you may need to go back and scroll again and again. Seems unproductive for a work environment if you have to constantly read through a feed like this
workplace for groups, slack for chat all in one app would be a great package. workplace is great but the chat is mind blowingly bad
Yeah that’s surprising the chat is bad considering they dominate the chat space…
It will not succeed since it does not have any solid use case or probablem it's solving for companies. Mostly, cash rich companies will try it for a while and realise it's of no use. Even if they continue, it's not sufficient to make it a meaningful business. It must be some pet project of some hotshot guy at meta.
It’s solves a lot of very common problems that companies waste resources trying to solve through hacky means. You want to have some live GDocs that are easily searchable? Put in a post in Workplace with a solid summary of what the doc is a about. You want people to be aware of wins across the company? Have people post their wins in Workplace. You have a bunch of noobs asking the same questions over and over? Have them post in workplace and the later search for the answers themselves. It’s Slack, Stackoverflow, and somewhat of a Confluence in one tool.
While all those use cases are valid, meta is not purpose built for any of them and almost all companies have other better channels to get those tasks done. When it comes to cost cutting, people will wonder what is that unique value add workplace is doing and they will have nothing to show. I will add that workplace will be successful business as suckers like walmart are around who will get impressed by a fancy ppt and ready to waste their money.
Team downsized, execs and product leads quit. Got wedged into reality labs to prop up revenue numbers there.
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Hope so if it proliferates WFH
Lol I just realized it might be a goal to have a wfh cashier that answers phone calls and does customer service for a self checkout lane. Like they have a monitor for all 5 checkouts and the customer could press a button to call them. Then they can enter a product code into the monitor from home, call security from home, etc.
Why the fuck would I want to remotely interact with a cashier.