Facebook launches social network for work and business communication

In the coming months, Facebook will launch a professional version of a social network designed for communication within companies.

The novelty will be called Facebook at Work. Although first of all it is designed to solve work issues, but in many respects will look like to its "parent". Like the traditional version of Facebook, there will be a news feed, the ability to like, share and exchange messages.

“I would say 95% of what Facebook has learned has been applied to Facebook at Work,” the company's director of global partnerships, Julien Cordonu, told Reuters.

However, there will be some differences. So, playing games in the new social network will not work. In addition, Facebook users at Work will have separate profiles that are not associated with personal accounts on a regular Facebook. Only colleagues will be able to see the information that they will share. For example, representatives of a particular group or all employees.

As soon as the social network will be launched, any company will be able to join it, however some services will be paid.

Facebook at Work has been tested since January of this year. Any company that received an invitation could participate in it for free. To date, about 300 companies and organizations have joined the network. Among them: the manufacturer of beer Heineken, the Royal Bank of Scotland and jewelry firms Stella and Dot.

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