

Greater connectivity: The workplace connects with the tools and services like Office 365, G Suite, Dropbox, etc. With its pervasive nature, the app connects all the team members and ensures that they all are on the same page.

It’s like Facebook but totally separate from it so that you can concentrate on your work. Workplace chat has features similar to Facebook, which means there won’t be any problem for the user to adapt. Pervasive: Facebook has over 2.5 million active users per month.

You can even highlight the important stuff for everyone to read. The groups allow you to hold quick work chats and circulate information at a much faster rate. It helps you build a strong community and introduce a different work culture. The app is highly agile, which facilitates faster communication regardless of the size of your team. The specialized Work Chat app could provide much of the same features and benefits that many companies currently get from Slack.Community: Workplace Chat can be suitable for a large and small teams. The company is preparing to expand into the corporate market with Facebook at Work, which is still currently in the testing phase. Slack recently raised $300 million to continue its expansion and is being valued at $2.8 billion by private investors.įacebook's reach is massive, with roughly 1.5 billion monthly users throughout the world. The chat app could spell trouble for Slack, the workplace messaging system that has taken off in many businesses over the past two years and which recently announced it has 1.7 million daily users on its service. It is only available to the 300 or so businesses that are currently testing the Facebook at Work service, according to the report. The app, which was first spotted by TechCrunch, appeared on the Google Play store on Thursday. Just as the main consumer version of Facebook has the standalone Messenger app for users to send messages to each other, Facebook now has Work Chat, a standalone messaging app to complement the private version of the social network designed for businesses.

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