Facebook At Work: Release Date 2016, Price And Everything Else You Need To Know

Facebook is now ready to turn work into addiction with the launch of its new Work enterprise platform. The company has been working on a version that could be used as a social network for employees in various companies. The result of their consistent efforts is to come out in the form of a new platform, Facebook At Work, early next month.

The new platform is already being named a strong competitor against the currently dominating Microsoft's Slack and Yammer. The Information was the first site to report Facebook's plans regarding its enterprise communication network, Facebook At Work. The launch is reported to take place in the coming few weeks on a per-seat pricing model.

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Features

Facebook At Work's biggest strength is its familiarity. Users will find it much easier than many of the available SaaS tools as people already have login credentials and also know how to use it. If a company wants secure accounts, the employees can set up separate accounts for doing business.

Facebook At Work subscribers can use the Work Feed from colleagues to exchange ideas that is the same as the news feed for the social site. Facebook At Work will also offer a group feature and messenger that will include audio and video calling options. Additionally, it has the social site's profiles, live video and events features. According to TechCrunch, although the exact price for Facebook At Work hasn't yet been announced, the 400+ beta users who're testing it for free are to get few additional months of promotional subscriptions.

Don't forget, your bosses are watching. https://t.co/dVHRTLI7aN — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 29, 2016

Price Plan

The social networking giant believe its new platform will keep individual employees engaged, so it's charging the companies on the basis of per monthly active users instead of a flat rate. Reports state that Facebook may announce partnerships with other SaaS tool providers including Asana.

Facebook for Work, which was first unveiled in 2014, mainly aims at business users. Currently, the platform is being tested by quite a number of companies, including the 100,000-employee Royal Bank Of Scotland.

Slack offers only real-time messaging tools and charges $6.67 per active user. Whereas, its rival products lConvo, Salesforce Chatter, and Microsoft's Yammer charge from $9 to 24$. Expanding its revenue beyond advertising could definitely help Facebook boost its budget without sinking its consumers in marketing.

Though Facebook at Work was revealed in October 2014, it was unclear whether the product the company was building, was for itself or enterprise customers. Facebook's new product is a part of the company's broader mission to interconnect the world. Facebook launched the trial version of the work platform in January 2015. The official version will hit the market in the first few weeks of next month.