All of these announcements have been designed to make it easier for Workplace to be an integral part of the company experience and to compete to get a piece of that communications business, but it's also a tacit recognition that it needs to provide a tool set, partnerships and integrations that enterprise customers are going to demand.
It seems like everyday there is a new app that promises to make your life a little bit easier, your workplace more productive or help you do your job "better".
The president claims to support replacing secret ballots with public recruitment drives to make it easier for workplaces to unionise (an idea known as "card check"), but the proposal has stalled in Congress.
It's quite easy in the workplace to brush it off because you just want to get on, and you don't want to be a problem.
Improving the physical environment is a relatively easy fix for workplace health but does not have the most impact, says Wilmar Schaufeli, a psychology professor from Utrecht University.
If only it were that easy in the workplace.
The idea is that everyone, from executive to barista to warehouse assistant, will find Workplace easy to use because, well, it looks and feels a lot like the hugely popular Facebook.
"Even if some employees welcome this, there has to be a better and less privacy-invasive way to check employees' [identities] and make it easy to buy workplace snacks than implanting a microchip in each person," Chris Ott, executive director of Wisconsin's ACLU branch, told HuffPost. .
Easy access to workplace computers with internet and subscription of paid journals will facilitate physicians.
What you need is a new best friend - and there are few easier places to find one than the fetid waters of your workplace (easier does not necessarily equal better, but who really has time to find the new hobbies and social activities that could otherwise lead to friendship?).
