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| Facebook has 7 million subscribers in the workplace |
Facebook announced that its platform for workplace collaboration has now reached 7 million paid users, a 40% increase from 5 million users in May last year.
Workplace is an online collaboration platform that encourages teamwork, instant messaging, video conferencing, and message exchange. A company can use it as an internal social network to communicate with its employees.
The service was introduced in 2016. Customers include companies such as Spotify and Starbucks.
Despite these numbers, the service still lags behind its best competitors, with Microsoft last month announcing that the Microsoft Teams platform now has more than 145 million daily active users, an increase of more than 93% from 75 million in April 2020.
Slack no longer divides the number of users, but it announced 12 million daily active users in September 2019 when this data was last reported.
The number of customers paying for Slack increased from 110,000 in March 2020 to 156,000 in March 2021, an increase of nearly 42%.
Facebook has not disclosed how much Workplace has contributed to its revenue, but the service, along with Oculus and Portal devices, is included in its financial performance in other companies' rankings.
In the first quarter of 2021, other companies accounted for about 2.8% of Facebook's revenue, and the rest comes from ads.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said in a post, "We created the Workplace as an in-house version of Facebook to run our own business, and we're also starting to let other organizations use it, which is cool. Good for us. Help."
The Workplace Product Manager said: We hope to bring business computer software to billions of Facebook users by building services that use the same features that people learn from popular Facebook apps.
He added, "In the past, a lot of people couldn't use it because information technology was complicated or expensive. Now you can take anyone to the workplace and they'll know how to use it right away."
Facebook also announced several new features for the Workplace, including a new live question-and-answer experience, integration with Calendar apps for Office 365 and Google's G Suite, icons with different skin tones and features that users can use to display the corresponding features. Ways to give names to colleagues.