Slack vs. Workplace from Meta

Slack

Workplace from Meta

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Slack	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…	$8.75 per month per user
Workplace from Meta	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Facebook at Work allows users to interact with co-workers through the Facebook interface.	$4 per month per user

Pricing

Slack

Workplace from Meta

Free: $0
Pro: $7.25*
per month per user
Business+: $12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Enterprise Live: $2.00
per month per user
Enhanced Admin & Support: $2.00
per month per user
Workplace Core: $4.00
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Slack	Workplace from Meta
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Slack	Workplace from Meta
Considered Both Products	Salesforce Lokesh Meena Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack is more likely to be like internal messaging apps, so it is much more familiar than Skype for Business. Its app is much easier to use and has a nice UI in comparison to Skype for Business. On the other hand, for our day-to-day needs, Workplace by Facebook is much more … Incentivized Helpful? Bertrand POTART Product manager in Information Technology at ADEO (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose Slack We did not found the same level of features on all these products. Where Slack is better than other ones, is that you are interacting with other really fast, you can jump in open channels, private channels, be updated about topics and also manage different workspaces. The … Incentivized Helpful? Amod Shinde Software Engineer in Information Technology at RiteCare (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack offers a seamless experience with a very simple and easy understandable user interface. Slack is better when it comes to memory management on Windows. The menu design offered by Slack to the left of the screen offers a much better user experience than those provided by … Incentivized Helpful? Marco Carnevali VP Products in Product Management at Inkstinct (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack is more integrated with our third-party software products and is easier and faster to set up. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Walker Director of Digital Marketing in Marketing at 407 Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Slack Slack is mostly chat-based more so than workflow-focused. Wrike and Asana are both much more workflow focused, so it's hard to compare them to Slack. Slack is great to get people to collaborate and discuss things or keep them updated in what is going on. However, if your issues … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Hatfield Head of Digital in Marketing at nib Healthfunds (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Slack We found that for group collaboration and communicate that Slack was a far superior solution for our business. We found it extremely easy to use and adoption of the service was viral. With the alternatives when we trialled them we found it harder to gain traction amongst our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Way easier to separate conversations on Slack, direct at people and search topics and conversations. Much more efficient. Incentivized Helpful?	Meta Platforms Inc Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta I think that Workplace facebook is more intuitive for users than Slack or Yammer, it allows you to create groups and send information to everyone in a cleaner and more accessible way, as well as having more functionalities. In the case of Telegram, the functionality is more … Incentivized Helpful? Casey Cleary (LION) Senior Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at Velocity23 - The Home Builder Growth Agency (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Workplace is so much better than Slack. It is a far less overwhelming way to message employees and provide input and status updates on projects. I feel like Slack is just a never-ending message board and it's all over the place, but with Workplace's familiar interface to … Incentivized Helpful? Lokesh Meena Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Slack has very limited features when compared with Workplace by Facebook. It looks like we have to make a group or something like that and start chatting like telegram or WhatsApp. It has some additional features and a professional look when compared with the social media apps, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta I didn’t! We like that Slack is free-standing and we moved over post the death of Hipchat, so it’s easier to stay there. Incentivized Helpful? Gabriela Band Sales Specialist in Sales at Ogilvy (Internet, 10,001+ employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Hangouts is positioning itself as a simpler service. It does not need to have a complete feed or directory of all of the users. Slack works more like Workplace, but feels more limited. Workplace feels more like a community board and can bridge distances between remote teams and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta Unlike Slack and Teams, which come from the enterprise world, Workplace is a product born from a social networking company making it friendlier and "cooler" somehow. It feels more familiar, easy to use and it can be less formal and more relatable. In terms of functionality, it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta Slack is much better as far as a chat tool goes. It integrates with Google Drive and other project management software, it separates conversations by channels and people, and you can do it all from one app. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Montgomery Energy Efficiency Consultant in Engineering at SEMCO (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Workplace by Facebook is so much more than just a project management tool like Basecamp or Slack. The ability to disseminate information to employees is easier and better with Workplace by Facebook. It can also be used for informal messaging and sharing of information. It … Incentivized Helpful? Fedor Paretsky Code Evangelist® in Engineering at StudentRND (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta We recently migrated from the premium plan of Slack to Workplace by Facebook. We found that the security and privacy options were more easy to control, and that Facebook's UI was generally better-designed and more intuitive. Since Slack's extension/integration ecosystem is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta Several software solutions were explored and tested before Workplace. While Slack, Yammer, and Skype offered the ability to collaborate on a project and have in-the-moment conversations, there was a realization that much more was needed to create a truly collaborative culture. … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Phan Country Manager in Corporate at Weshop Philippines (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Slack is an interesting platform that are used to enhance collaboration & project management. But comparing to Workplace by Facebook, it lacks of personalized feature which makes Workplace by Facebook unique. It brings members of the organization closer to each others and from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta Workplace [from Meta] far outstrips the others as it allows you to create an information hub, as well as just enabling conversations. The Newsfeed, Groups and the Knowledge Library all make it really simple for the end-user to find information, and the familiarity of having … Incentivized Helpful? Alexandrine YALA Quality Project Manager in Customer Service at DRA (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta The other helps out only for files and project management. With Workplace place you can go farther in project management and communication between the different teams. It's really a game-changer for every company that as adopts this tool. If you take it, you will see a really … Incentivized Helpful? MOHAMED ATEF Senior Software Quality Engineer in Quality Assurance at Sumerge Software Solutions (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Any other tool used before is not UI familiar as Workplace by Facebook. So now most of companies are migrating to Workplace because it's very easy to use, UI is perfect similar to Facebook which is widely used by everyone now. Also to keep fun in organizations after the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta The other video conference tools out there are more polished and robust. We still use Zoom for larger, important calls; calls with clients outside our organization (who don't have access to Workplace by Facebook Chat); and when we need to share screens to a group call … Incentivized Helpful? João Almeida Researcher in Engineering at Instituto de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Workplace by Facebook offers more features with less of a learning curve than other options, which has helped adoption and usefulness. It is built for communication, which it excels at. However, it is not built to address all business needs and other project management, … Incentivized Helpful? Chandan Vishwakarma RPA UiPath Developer in Information Technology at Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Workplace from Meta Facebook is the one Common word across Globe. Almost Everyone knows how to use it. And if this is capable of handling workplace requirements, then it is perfect competitor for anything in market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Workplace from Meta Workplace offers more features with less of a learning curve than other options, which has helped adoption and usefulness. It is built for communication, which it excels at, but it is not built to address all business needs and other project management, document review, and … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Slack

Workplace from Meta

Comparison of Project Management features of Slack and Workplace from Meta
Feature	Slack 8.2 479 Ratings	Workplace from Meta - Ratings
Task Management	8.2310 Ratings	00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	6.961 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scheduling	7.9259 Ratings	00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	8.4284 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.5460 Ratings	00 Ratings
Search	8.7463 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visual planning tools	8.0187 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of Slack and Workplace from Meta
Feature	Slack 8.8 488 Ratings	Workplace from Meta - Ratings
Chat	9.8488 Ratings	00 Ratings
Notifications	9.1484 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discussions	9.6473 Ratings	00 Ratings
Surveys	8.1302 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	7.8300 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	8.9110 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.7182 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	8.9120 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Slack and Workplace from Meta
Feature	Slack 8.7 461 Ratings	Workplace from Meta - Ratings
Versioning	8.4229 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	8.8412 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	9.1403 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.4318 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	8.4305 Ratings	00 Ratings
Advanced security features	8.4264 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	9.0211 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	9.1339 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Slack	Workplace from Meta
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (489 ratings)	7.4 (55 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (23 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (103 ratings)	5.6 (2 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (66 ratings)	8.4 (21 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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