Facebook Workplace … good or bad?

I lay my cards on the table, with a vested interest here … I have never been an active user of Facebook, and dislike the platform.

In my university, we have Facebook Workplace. I registered for it once, and now I just receive emails which I never follow-up. Unfortunately, Facebook’s whole business model is that the more they know about you, the more they can make money from you. Otherwise, in a corporate environment, you’ll have to pay for every user in the company, in order for them not to mine your data.

For me, Facebook Workplace, just seems another way for Facebook to worm their way into your life. And so, with increasing levels of distrust with users, Facebook is looking to monitize users in companies, and by charging NOT to store their data.

But the feedback from users in some Facebook Workplaces is perhaps not as positive as one would expect. CERN is one example, and who subscribed to their free trail. Unfortunately, user feedback, in places, highlighted that many people just don’t trust the platform, and that that only 150 out of 1,000 registered users actually ended-up using it on a weekly basis. This has caused CERN to announce that it will end Worplace on 31 January 2020: