Facebook at Work: 12 Things to Know

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Facebook at Work is Facebook Inc’s (NASDAQ:FB) effort to integrate its social media service with businesses and employees.

Facebook at Work, Facebook, FBHere are a few things to know about Facebook at Work.

  • The service creates a social network for employers and employees to connect over.
  • There are separate apps and websites for Facebook at Work from normal Facebook.
  • Employers and employees have to create a new business account to use the service, but they don’t need a previous personal account.
  • Information from a person’s personal account isn’t shown on their business account.
  • Employees won’t see information from their Facebook at Work account showing up in their personal accounts.
  • All content created by employees via business account will belong to the employer.
  • If an employees with a Facebook at Work account leaves the company, the employer will take over control of their account.
  • Instead of friends, the platform has employers and employees creating groups to better communicate.
  • Facebook isn’t currently charging for the service, but may in the future.
  • There are over 450 companies using the social media platform.
  • The service is still in its early adopter stage.
  • If offers single sign-on secure identity management, enterprise support and analytics to users.

Follow this link to learn more about Facebook at Work.

Facebook is preparing to officially launch its Facebook at Work platform. It has sent out invites to various tech publications for the announcement event, which will be held on Oct. 10. The event will be held in London.

FB stock was down 1% as of Thursday afternoon.

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