Implementing a complete solution for Unified Communications as a Service doesn’t just mean investing in business voice solutions anymore. To thrive in today’s ever-changing hybrid and remote work landscape, companies need a UC environment built for collaboration.
Workplace from Meta earned the attention of numerous companies across various industries in recent years, thanks to its focus on connecting the entire team. The Workplace environment promises quick and convenient communication in a social-media-style space with the field, remote, and in-office workers.
Hyperloop TT, an innovator in the transportation sector, chose Workplace from Meta as its central solution for driving a more valuable future of communication and collaboration in the business landscape. Let’s look at how Hyperloop TT is leveraging Workplace from Meta.
Building a New Future for Collaboration
Hyperloop TT is currently working towards an ambitious transportation project, including a 1300km per hour floating pod capable of transporting 15 million passengers per year. According to the brand, bringing ideas to life requires a deep focus on collaboration and excellent communication for more than 800 employees and contributors worldwide.
Andrea La Mendola, the Chief Operating Officer at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, said that in this fast-moving business, the team must collaborate and communicate as efficiently as possible. When connecting the global, distributed workforce, Hyperloop found no tool was quite as effective as Workplace.
Previously, the company relied on Slack for its daily requirements regarding collaboration. However, the brand decided to switch tracks and look for a highly layered new workplace collaboration platform. According to Mendola, the organisation now has almost 300 different Workplace groups allowing for countless teams to communicate meaningfully across the globe.
Hyperloop TT allowed its employees to experiment with several different collaboration tools to see which they would respond best. However, it was Workplace from Meta which encouraged the highest levels of adoption.
The Benefits of Workplace from Meta
While there were several reasons why Hyperloop TT decided to use Workplace from Meta, one of the main factors was its convenient social-media like interface. Mendola said the team took to Workplace quickly because it was a familiar and complete solution capable of working for global teams distributed across various time zones.
Another major factor was a keen focus on security. For a transportation company like Hyperloop TT, security is an area where mistakes aren’t an option. The confidential nature of the company’s intellectual property and agreements with governmental agencies like NASA meant the brand needed a way of keeping all kinds of data safe.
Workplace from Meta follows and adheres to a range of security standards. Like many of the UCaaS and collaboration tools available on the market today, Meta's offering is designed to follow industry-standard certifications like ISO 27001 and ISO 27018, SOC 2 and SOC 3.
Workplace from Meta also allowed Hyperloop TT to share information and keep track of that information effectively over time. Posts could be created and marked as “important” to ensure every member of a team or organisation would see them. This made much sense for Hyperloop, where people worked across various time zones.
