Workplace from Facebook Adds DocuSign Integration

This month, workplace collaboration tool provider Workplace from Facebook said it partnered with DocuSign to introduce a new integration. The company’s latest integration streamlines the time it takes for organizations to onboard brand-new employees. A spokesperson for Facebook’s Workplace platform told UC Today News, the feature should be “Especially useful when onboarding frontline workers without corporate emails.”

DocuSign now has a chatbot built into the Workplace platform, which lets HR professionals and others during the onboarding process enter sending and signing workflows. They can even receive notifications about agreements via DocuSign’s eSignature platform located within the ‘Workplace from Facebook’ user interface.

The integration is said to extend seamless access to DocuSign by letting users add eSignatures with a single click from a Workplace chat so they can send, track, and manage electronic agreements. Organizations can receive notifications when there’s an agreement in need of signing, or to get the status of an agreement out for signature. The fresh integration even tackles simple compliance – extending a court-admissible audit trail of the transaction, which is automatically archived in the DocuSign platform.

In late July ‘Workplace from Facebook’ announced plans to improve the Workplace website and chat app for iOS users. In August, the workplace collaboration platform received those enhancements, and starting on August 12, system admins gained the ability to turn on the new and improved website for their ‘Workplace.’ This is possible via a post on the ‘What’s New’ page located in the platform’s admin panel. “There, you can schedule the start and end date of your organization’s early access period. If you choose not to schedule them, we will move your Workplace to the improved website on your behalf,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement.

Starting on September 23, Workplace users can no longer access the current version of the Workplace website.

If you’ve yet to migrate to the new version of Workplaces’ iOS chat app, Facebook says it started migrating users over to the new app back in August. But if for some reason your organization’s virtual workspace has yet to make the move, system admins can do so by navigating to the new Workplace chat iOS post on the ‘What’s New’ page of the Workplace client.

This is located in the ‘Admin Panel’ under ‘Manage early access,’ I’m told in a statement by the company. This week, Workplace from Facebook said users, can no longer access or use the current version of its iOS chat app. Workplace from Facebook said the redesign should make it easier for users to navigate, and hopefully speed up the onboarding process for those who find themselves working from home during the novel Coronavirus pandemic while leveraging the Workplace platform. The company said it removed a feature that allowed users to create a nickname for one another which added a personal touch to the virtual collaboration experience.

Facebook, like Google, recently announced that it would allow employees to work from home up until the middle of 2021 due to the novel Coronavirus. Twitter and Slack previously stated its employees could work from home for good if they wished to.