[tonylucas]

Disclaimer: Workplace Partner @ Job

I was cynical about it to begin with, when it was just 'Facebook at Work' but I do believe it addresses a lot of the issues brought up in the blog post and the Workplace team are executing very well.

Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.

I don't think it's a Slack killer, as they both solve different problems in different ways, and Workplace is very much a 'big co, top down' approach.

I do think other existing collaboration tools have a lot to be worried about between Slack & Workplace though.

Last stat I heard was there is over 14k companies using it.

[djrogers]

> Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.

This was the claim that was made when we tried out FB@W, but shortly after I created my work account (I don't have a personal account) my wife started getting friend suggestions for coworkers of mine she's never met. I never even used my @work account for looking at her FB account, wasn't friended to her, etc.

I think it was either a) harder to undo all the creepiness, or b) they didn't want to.

[mkohlmyr]

Sounds pretty decent! Would be interested in trying it if my employer didn't roll its own team chat for this purpose.

Maybe Slack should be worried too. They may have a tough road ahead growing into the valuation between Facebook Workplace, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian HipChat and Amazon Chime.

[tcbawo]

Cisco also has a product called Spark which has integration with their videoconferencing equipment.