Meta will close its business-focused social network Workplace next year as it continues its transition toward AI and the metaverse.
“We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on developing AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally change the way we work,” says a Meta spokesperson. “Over the next two years, we will provide our Workplace customers with the option to transition to Zoom Workvivo ProductMeta’s only preferred migration partner.”
Workplace will continue to operate as usual until August 31, 2025, at which point you will no longer be able to post. You will have until May 31, 2026 to view or download any data you want from your account. After that, accounts will be canceled and information will be deleted. From September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, customers will get a 50% discount.
Workplace debuted nearly a decade ago as Facebook at Work. After running in beta for about two years, it emerged as Workplace and was positioned as an alternative to other business communication tools, such as Trello and Slack. Facebook promoted Workplace as a useful way for those working in nontraditional offices to stay in touch — helping retail workers, ship crews or baristas stay connected from a phone or tablet, for example.
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In the end, though, it was just a version of Facebook that swapped memes and updates from high school classmates with posts about company vacations, quarterly earnings, and the like. In our 2017 review, we noted that it didn’t “offer much from a productivity perspective.”
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