Terrific Way to Stay Connected!
Pros
- Bring groups of people together to share info, stories, updates, etc.
- The chat app is pretty decent.
- Workplace Live is a good large-group meeting broadcast platform.
- It's pretty intuitive to use for anyone who's used Facebook.
- It provides different levels of "security" for groups, allowing you to have open, closed, and "secret" groups.
- It's easy to paste images into your posts and comments, without having to necessarily go through the process of saving an image as a file, etc.
- It has search capabilities for finding old information.
- It's available for both desktop/laptop and mobile devices.
- It's secured to allow only those within the company to see company-related info (but it also has a few inter-company groups, which can be useful, too).
- Workplace Chat has the ability to set it to Do Not Disturb.
- You can set notifications, including email notifications, if you want to be alerted to new activity in your groups, etc.
- You can use Markdown to format your text
Cons
- Workplace Chat is not reliable in terms of being able to delete a comment you sent...sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
- When viewing a Workplace Live event after it's over, the comments don't always show all of them and in order, even when you choose that option.
- Your "status" (on vacation, in a meeting, whatever) is a bit too subtle and easy for folks not to notice. We've created "badges" to use in place of our profile photo as a workaround for that, but it would be nice if Workplace had provided something like that itself.
Most Important Features
- Groups
- Workplace Chat
- Workplace Live
- It's easy to use
Return on Investment
- It has been terrific at helping us to feel connected as a company during the pandemic, while (almost) everyone has been working from home.
- It's been great at making us more connected globally and at supporting various special interest groups.
- It's provided a useful alternative to Zoom for very large-scale meetings, like company "town halls."
Other Software Used
Zoom, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Snagit, Lectora, Adobe Presenter, Audacity, Vyond (formerly GoAnimate)
