Facebook is planning to launch the “professional” version of social network – Facebook at Work, the Ministry of Finance reports, quoting Julien Codorniou, the director of global platform partnerships at Facebook.
The company has started beta testing of Facebook at work in January 2015, currently the service is available only by special invitations.
From the perspective of interface of Facebook at Work will be similar to the regular version of social network – the news line, “likes” and messenger will be present in it.
“I would say that 95% of what we developed for Facebook will be applied in Facebook at Work”, - said Codorniou.
Meanwhile, Facebook at Work users won’t be able to play Candy Crush.
Facebook at Work users will have special profiles that will differ from those which regular users of social network have.
Right after the launch, the service will become available for all companies, and Facebook plans to charge “several dollars a month” from each professional user for premium services – analytics and support, Facebook representative noted.
According to Facebook representative, the test version of Facebook has been tested by more than 300 companies, among which – Heineken, Royal Bank of Scotland, Stella&Dot, Club Mediterranee SA.
