May 21, 2020 05:49 pm
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Facebook Workplace adds 2 million more paid users since October
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Facebook’s Workplace, its Slack-like collaboration and chat tool targeted at businesses, now has more than 5 million paid users, up from 3 million in October, Facebook announced today. That growth in users is due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has required many people to rely more on software tools while working from home.
Many collaboration apps have also seen growth since the pandemic. In March, Slack said that it had surpassed more than 12.5 million concurrent users, for example, and Microsoft Teams hit 75 million daily active users in April, a jump of 70 percent since the month before. However, those metrics indicate both Slack and Teams have more users than Facebook’s Workplace, even if they aren’t comparing apples to...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/21/21266481/facebook-workplace-paid-users-rooms-portal-tv-live-video-conferencing
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