Facebook Targets Office Workers With Facebook At Work Service

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook unveiled its rumored "at Work" service to a handful of partners today. Facebook at Work puts co-workers into a standalone social network and allows them to share posts and images appropriate for the workplace but looks and acts just like regular Facebook. "We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient," Lars Rasmussen, Facebook's director of engineering, tells WIRED. "You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.""

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He is TOTALLY right!

[Anonymous Coward]

"We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient," Lars Rasmussen, Facebook's director of engineering, tells WIRED. "You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.""

I am a professional stuff doer. I used to use Microsoft Office but I found I could only crunch numbers, make presentations and write documents.

But do stuff?

Nope.

Then came facebook at work and all the changed!

My boss walked into my cube and asked, "Anon, how do you get all this stuff done so fast!"

I said, "facebook at work."

He was so impressed. He then said, "I tell you. I get THE best workers from Dice.com! Oh, I'm glad to see that you are Slashdot because we all know, to get the latest in IT, software development news, security and everything that a company and worker needs to know, is on Slashdot - a Dicey company!"

Re:Situational Awareness

[TechyImmigrant]

Then you might have a badly managed workplace?

Doesn't everybody?

Re:More stuff done

[WillAffleckUW]

One wrong line of code and all my work-inappropriate stuff will suddenly be thrown in the face of co-workers while they are trying to do their jobs.

I trust this about as far as an ant can spit.

Actually, some spitting variants of ants can do a pretty good job. The formic acid has some neurotoxins that let them stun their prey.

But, yeah, totally agree.