Facebook creates ‘workplace’, the social network for the work – Trade (Ecuador)

The social network biggest on the planet continues to look for ways to expand, and now has created a new tool called Workplace. What is this about? Basically does the same thing that makes Facebook, but without advertising, and in a controlled environment for the internal communication within firms.

The service is available free of charge to companies that wish to use it. You only need to enter your web site.

Workplace is free for the first three months, but as you continue to use Facebook will begin to charge a monthly fee of $ 3 for companies that have up to 1 000 active users service, $ 2 for those who have between 1 001 and 10 000 users, and $ 1 for those with more than 10 001 users. The service, however, will be free for organizations education , and for-profit institutions.

Workplace offers to those who pay for the service as a storage unlimited files, photos, and videos, in addition to an unlimited number of projects group. Among other services, is the possibility of doing live video broadcasts. This facilitates the communications at a distance and helps you share files with coworkers, as indicated by the company.

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users within the business, this works as an account separate from your personal account on Facebook. Although the operation is the same, the networks of friends and groups that still are more related to work with the social life. Even those who do not have an account of Facebook will be able to access a Workplace by creating an account for the service.

Facebook has clarified that the employers who choose to implement this tool work will not have any form of access to the information that users save in their personal accounts of the social network, as Workplace and Facebook are two applications that, although they have the same function, they function separately.