Workplace by Facebook is introducing powerful new features to connect your whole organisation with familiar tools and to help everyone in your business to turn ideas into action, including the Workplace Chat desktop and group video chat. This follows a year of growth and development for the platform, with more than 30,000 organisations worldwide now using Workplace.
Workplace Chat is adding a desktop app. Now, anyone can download the app for Workplace Chat on PC, Mac, Android or iOS. People can access the same features as the mobile app from their desktop. Workplace Chat includes video chat with a coworker or group, screen sharing, and file sharing.
It also includes features like message reactions, @mentions, and gifs that keep the conversation fun but focused. In the coming weeks Facebook plans to update Workplace Chat to include support for group video chat on desktop and on mobile. People will soon be able to click a button and instantly start a video meeting for their team.
Julien Codorniou, Vice President, Workplace at Facebook, says: “One year ago, we launched Workplace to help make companies more connected and productive. Building on the launch of the Workplace name and logo last year, we’re giving all our apps across all platforms a new, fresh, consistent look and feel. These design updates are based on feedback from customers and make it easier to connect and navigate on Workplace.”
Workplace is an employee’s command centre for everything that’s happening with their team, their company, and their industry. To accomplish this, companies use a combination of Workplace features to best fit how they work – groups for teamwork, video for storytelling, and integrations like Box and Office365 for everyday work.
More than 50 service partners, including Slalom, Golin, and Revevol, now help customers launch and use Workplace to connect their people. Workplace is also integrated with a growing list of tools and services, and people can build custom integrations with APIs. At Oxfam International, a staff worker shared a video on Workplace about his work helping bring clean water to a village in South Sudan. The video became a key fundraising asset that was shared with major donors.
