While most of the enterprise collaboration and digital workplace chatter over the past few months has been about Slack and Microsoft Teams, Facebook made a comeback this week, despite recent data breaches and ongoing concerns about data privacy.
This week, at its inaugural enterprise workplace conference it announced a number of impressive upgrades for its collaboration application Workplace by Facebook, including the ability to set up new communication channels between companies, a “do not disturb” mode that lets employees turn off notifications from their colleagues, and a Safety Check for Workplace the enables teams to locate people quickly in the event of an enterprise emergency.