Walmart signs on for Facebook's new platform
The nation's largest private employer is working with the country's largest social network.
Walmart has signed on to use Facebook’s Workplace enterprise collaboration platform. Launched in fall 2016, Workplace is designed to connect colleagues within a company, and allow them to message each other, share images and broadcast live videos.
Walmart is not yet paying for Workplace — Facebook offers a 90-day free trial of the product, reported Recode, but it will be a paying customer once the free trial is over. The report did not say how many of Walmart's employees are using the service.
“We believe the right technology can empower our people. Walmart’s vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,” Clay Johnson, Walmart’s CIO and executive VP, said in a report by TechCrunch. “Workplace shares this mission, and together we’re building the next generation workforce.”
To date, Walmart has used the platform to share pictures with other stores of a particular product display; to broadcast news via its live video stream; and to manage communications between different geographies using Facebook’s automatic translation features, according to TechCrunch.
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Walmart has signed on to use Facebook’s Workplace enterprise collaboration platform. Launched in fall 2016, Workplace is designed to connect colleagues within a company, and allow them to message each other, share images and broadcast live videos.
Walmart is not yet paying for Workplace — Facebook offers a 90-day free trial of the product, reported Recode, but it will be a paying customer once the free trial is over. The report did not say how many of Walmart's employees are using the service.
“We believe the right technology can empower our people. Walmart’s vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,” Clay Johnson, Walmart’s CIO and executive VP, said in a report by TechCrunch. “Workplace shares this mission, and together we’re building the next generation workforce.”
To date, Walmart has used the platform to share pictures with other stores of a particular product display; to broadcast news via its live video stream; and to manage communications between different geographies using Facebook’s automatic translation features, according to TechCrunch.
For more, click here.