Workplace from Facebook added an insights panel to the platform’s administration tab. Workplace admins can now learn how employees utilize the platform and measure the organization’s usage of ‘Workplace’.
Insights can be used to track employee signups, trends within groups, post-level activity, and the feature lets organizations track five key components of the workplace from employees to the content they create.
- People: Tracks how active organizations are on the platform from the company’s initial implementation and onboarding to monthly active usage stats
- Content: Here is where you can quantify the amount of content your company creates and the number of employees who actively writing content
- Groups: Organizations that want to track group creation and activity across ‘Workplace’ can now do so with the use of ‘Groups’
- Posts: Measure the number of likes, comments, and views posts receive to track the impact of messages on a post-by-post basis
- Connections: Another handy feature, the ability to see where collaboration is happening on ‘Workplace,’ based on interactions between people to optimize experiences
If a ‘Workplace’ account has fewer than seven activated profiles, some data fields are hidden ‘or will not show anything.’ According to ‘Workplace,’ only admins and people with custom admin roles can use the new set of business intelligence tools.
The company even announced the availability of an educational resource, ‘Workplace Academy,’ a training hub that lets you access free interactive training materials along with self-paced courses, educational videos, and guides.
Facebook’s UK Expansion
Last month, Workplace from Facebook announced plans to expand in the UK. And the workplace collaboration tool is slated to bring 1,000 new jobs to the London area. Karandeep Anand, Vice President, Workplace from Facebook, at the time, told UC Today journalist, Maya Middlemiss, the company’s expanding in all areas of business including products, engineering, sales, and ‘go-to-market.’
London is home to Facebook’s largest software engineering hub outside the U.S., and Facebook said most of the job openings will focus on technology and product. To house Facebook’s growing UK operation, the company said it will build new offices in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood. The new location will accommodate up to 6,000 employees, it said, and the first building is slated to open in late 2021.
Workplace Has Gained Lots of Traction in a Short Period
All this comes after in October 2019, Workplace from Facebook said it had three million paid users. Facebook’s enterprise collaboration solution has gained lots of traction in the collaboration space amongst a group of three million Facebook loyalists and that number is expected to rise.
Already extending features such as groups, search, profiles, workplace chat, a news feed, auto-translation, live video and more, the collaboration tool’s usage stats seem slim when compared to its consumer-tech-focused older brother (Facebook’s) 2.5 billion users, according to Statista. What’s more, the company secured these customers in just over three years after initially launching in October 2016.
For non-profits, educational organizations, and emergency services organizations, Workplace from Facebook is available at a free or reduced-cost via Facebook’s Workplace for Good program.
