Meta shutting down its enterprise communications business – Workplace

Facebook’s parent company Meta is shutting down Workplace, a version of the social media company that had been built to enable communication among business teams and wider organizations. According to sources, while it will be business as usual on the platform until the start of September 2025, it will be read-only until May 2026.

Following that, the service will be completely decommissioned. Meta is recommending Zoom-owned Workvivo as a migration-ready alternative. Workvivo, another enterprise communication platform, was acquired by Zoom in 2023.

It’s still not clear how many employees will be impacted by the closure.

The change marks the end of a ten-year run for the product. The project had big plans to bring a differentiated revenue stream to Facebook but ultimately found it too hard to compete against the likes of Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Originally announced in 2015 as “Facebook at Work”, then publicly launched a year later, Workplace provides all of the usual Facebook functions on an internal system, with the idea being that it can reduce the training time for internal collaboration tools, by providing professionals with the Facebook interface that they are already familiar with.