Facebook at Work to launch soon

Facebook at Work, a professional version of Facebook social media network should launch during the upcoming months after spending just over one year in tests, an executive at the company said.

What users share via their work accounts can only be seen by other people in the company, and what they share on their personal accounts can only be seen by friends and others based on their privacy settings.

“I would say 95 percent of what we developed for Facebook is also adopted for Facebook at Work”, Julien Codorniou, director of global platform partnerships at Facebook, told Reuters.

The fact that Facebook is more than likely already used by most employees and employers for personal use can only be a good thing.

The French resort company will offer the service to all its 13,000 employees through summer 2016, Anne Browaeys-Level, Club Mediterranee’s chief marketing & digital officer, told Reuters.

Facebook’s Codorniou said nearly everything on Facebook at Work is the same as the regular Facebook social network, with some minor exceptions. However, he noted, Candy Crush won’t be available on the work platform.

Eventually Facebook is aiming to build a great product that can be a “one-stop shop for all collaboration and communication needs – and that can in theory replace e-mail, messaging tools, newsletters etc.”, the spokesperson added.

If it achieves those goals, Facebook at Work could prove a substantial threat to other business-focused networking sites like LinkedIn or Microsoft’s Yammer. Like Facebook itself, Facebook at Work will be free to use.

Once launched, the service will be open to all companies and there are plans to charge “a few dollars per month per user” for premium services such as analytics and support.

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Facebook at Work to launch soon