Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of Facebook

Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by rdednl on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:04PM (#40358120)

I really liked this product (used when working at Meta). What I found interesting is that it's very similar to Facebook, but it optimizes for the opposite values. While Facebook newsfeed seems to try to maximize your time scrolling, watching ads, clicking, useless notifications; Workplace was continuously suggesting changes to maximize productivity, such as "you have not interacted with this type of notifications, stop receiving them" or "this group doesn't seem interesting to you, unfollow group" or even "set a productivity block to stop receiving notifications".

Same company, probably same underlying codebase and structure, but opposite reward optimization for showing items in the news feed and maximize productivity/time spend on feed.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by psunavy03 on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:49PM (#40358677)

That speaks volumes about how they value their devs as opposed to their users, and frankly doesn't surprise me. They don't have any interest in hacking the brains of their employees . . . or perhaps they do, but in a different direction.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by CactusOnFire on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @03:35PM (#40359214)

Speaking what might be obvious, but I would love a social media experience optimized in a similar way to this: Least amount of time & attention spent on the platform while facilitating the most in-human contact.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by munificent on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @04:59PM (#40360094)

So far, no one has figured out a business model for that that works, unfortunately.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by paulddraper on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @03:53PM (#40359426)

They optimize for their customer base.

Which are advertisers.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by anotherhue on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:33PM (#40358502)

I'll be impressed when it recommends you logout.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by troupo on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @05:23PM (#40360315)

> Workplace was continuously suggesting changes to maximize productivity

It doesn't. It's the same auto generated timeline where the latest news will be buried under the random updated form three months ago just because the engagement on it was higher.

The rest of the controls are nice, but it's the absolute minimum they did, so I don't see why we should congratulate them for that.

Edit: Forgot the most annoying anti-feature: email notifications. Instead of sending the full text of the post you might be interested in, the email will contain three words and a link to click. Because at Facebook engagement will always trump anything useful.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by edmundsauto on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @09:56PM (#40362288)

I've used it at a previous job, the email not containing content was a great feature for when people (inevitably) needed to retract something. That's all I ever took it for - super easy to turn those off and just use in-app messages.

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by troupo on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:12AM (#40364340)

> a great feature for when people (inevitably) needed to retract something.

Ah yes. Because that's a significantly more important and more often used feature than actually reading the content

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Re:Meta Is Shuttering Workplace, Its Enterprise Version of F... by gcr on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:02PM (#40416944)

hey, it's easier to argue for attorney-client privilege for content that doesn't exist, right? :)

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