CERN ends trial of Facebook Workplace

New changes to the status of CERN’s Workplace account prevent the Organization from continuing on the platform. CERN’s presence on Workplace will end on 31 January 2020. In October 2016, Facebook made Workplace available to any company or organisation. In particular, for CERN, they made the enticing offer of waiving the fees and so we took the opportunity to test the platform. Representatives from HR, IT and IR worked together to carry out dedicated trials within their department/sector to gather feedback. The feedback was not just technical, and also conveyed reluctance to engage with the platform. To date, about 1000 members of the CERN community have created a Workplace account and there are roughly 150 active users of the platform per week. In July 2019, Workplace announced new account plans and, in October, announced that there were three million paid users. CERN was then given a choice of either paying to continue with the initially free set-up or downgrading to a free version that would remov

28 Jan 2020 ... Changes to the status of CERN's Workplace account prevent the Organization from continuing on the platform (Image: Facebook Workplace).

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