Walmart Becomes the Largest 'Workplace by Facebook' User

Workplace by Facebook has been struggling to break ahead of the crowd in the collaboration and communication space, while faced with some significant competition from giants like Slack, and Google Hangouts. However, things might be looking up for the social networking giants, after they landed their largest enterprise user yet, Walmart Stores Inc.

As the largest United States private employer, Walmart is could represent a huge step up for Workplace, which will be rolled out to all the 2.2 million employees in the network in various strategic stages. Already, Sam's Club employees are using the platform to share pictures of their brand-new product displays.

Growth Looks Good for Workplace

Originally known as "Facebook at Work", Workplace has only been in action for a year, after launching officially in October 2016. With competition like Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Hangouts waiting in the wings, Facebook had some challenges to overcome if it wanted to reach the top spot for collaboration software.

Fortunately, the familiar and simple nature of Workplace has helped it to achieve some incredible growth. The Facebook enterprise solution simply works as an internal social media platform for companies, where professionals can access intra-office video and voice chat, personalised news feeds, custom groups and more. There's also analytics dashboards and software integration available for administrators too.

Since launch, Workplace by Facebook has earned the attention of a huge number of customers, used in 79 different languages by organisations in every single continent, including Antarctica. Total organisations using Workplace now numbers more than 30,000 worldwide. Some of the bigger enterprises in the Workplace network include the Singapore Government, Discovery Communications, Starbucks Corp, and Campbell Soup Co. Now, Walmart has become the largest single user in the whole Workplace community.

There's Still a Way to Go

According to Julien Codorniou, the Facebook Vice President, Walmart workers, and associates have been able to jump straight into using Workplace without the need for a lot of training, because the system is so simple to use.