Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020.
The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls.
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$8.75
per month per user
Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Score8 out of 10
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Workplace was a business communication tool from Meta with features like Live Video and Groups, that connected employees. Its discontinuation began in August of 2025, and by June 2026 a full shutdown is anticipated.
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Pricing
Slack
Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year.
Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Slack
Slack is more likely to be like internal messaging apps, so it is much more familiar than Skype for Business. Its app is much easier to use and has a nice UI in comparison to Skype for Business. On the other hand, for our day-to-day needs, Workplace by Facebook is much more …
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Product manager in Information Technology at ADEO (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Slack
We did not found the same level of features on all these products. Where Slack is better than other ones, is that you are interacting with other really fast, you can jump in open channels, private channels, be updated about topics and also manage different workspaces. The …
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Software Engineer in Information Technology at RiteCare (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Slack
Slack offers a seamless experience with a very simple and easy understandable user interface. Slack is better when it comes to memory management on Windows. The menu design offered by Slack to the left of the screen offers a much better user experience than those provided by …
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Director of Digital Marketing in Marketing at 407 Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Slack
Slack is mostly chat-based more so than workflow-focused. Wrike and Asana are both much more workflow focused, so it's hard to compare them to Slack. Slack is great to get people to collaborate and discuss things or keep them updated in what is going on. However, if your issues …
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Head of Digital in Marketing at nib Healthfunds (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Slack
We found that for group collaboration and communicate that Slack was a far superior solution for our business. We found it extremely easy to use and adoption of the service was viral. With the alternatives when we trialled them we found it harder to gain traction amongst our …
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Verified User
Chose Slack
Way easier to separate conversations on Slack, direct at people and search topics and conversations. Much more efficient.
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
I think that Workplace facebook is more intuitive for users than Slack or Yammer, it allows you to create groups and send information to everyone in a cleaner and more accessible way, as well as having more functionalities. In the case of Telegram, the functionality is more …
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Senior Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at Velocity23 - The Home Builder Growth Agency (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Workplace is so much better than Slack. It is a far less overwhelming way to message employees and provide input and status updates on projects. I feel like Slack is just a never-ending message board and it's all over the place, but with Workplace's familiar interface to …
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Project Manager in Product Management at FlipPaisa (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Slack has very limited features when compared with Workplace by Facebook. It looks like we have to make a group or something like that and start chatting like telegram or WhatsApp. It has some additional features and a professional look when compared with the social media apps, …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
I didn’t! We like that Slack is free-standing and we moved over post the death of Hipchat, so it’s easier to stay there.
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Sales Specialist in Sales at Ogilvy (Internet, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Hangouts is positioning itself as a simpler service. It does not need to have a complete feed or directory of all of the users. Slack works more like Workplace, but feels more limited. Workplace feels more like a community board and can bridge distances between remote teams and …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Unlike Slack and Teams, which come from the enterprise world, Workplace is a product born from a social networking company making it friendlier and "cooler" somehow. It feels more familiar, easy to use and it can be less formal and more relatable. In terms of functionality, it …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Slack is much better as far as a chat tool goes. It integrates with Google Drive and other project management software, it separates conversations by channels and people, and you can do it all from one app.
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Energy Efficiency Consultant in Engineering at SEMCO (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Workplace by Facebook is so much more than just a project management tool like Basecamp or Slack. The ability to disseminate information to employees is easier and better with Workplace by Facebook. It can also be used for informal messaging and sharing of information. It …
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Code Evangelist® in Engineering at StudentRND (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
We recently migrated from the premium plan of Slack to Workplace by Facebook. We found that the security and privacy options were more easy to control, and that Facebook's UI was generally better-designed and more intuitive. Since Slack's extension/integration ecosystem is …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Several software solutions were explored and tested before Workplace. While Slack, Yammer, and Skype offered the ability to collaborate on a project and have in-the-moment conversations, there was a realization that much more was needed to create a truly collaborative culture. …
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Country Manager in Corporate at Weshop Philippines (Retail, 11-50 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Slack is an interesting platform that are used to enhance collaboration & project management. But comparing to Workplace by Facebook, it lacks of personalized feature which makes Workplace by Facebook unique. It brings members of the organization closer to each others and from …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Workplace [from Meta] far outstrips the others as it allows you to create an information hub, as well as just enabling conversations. The Newsfeed, Groups and the Knowledge Library all make it really simple for the end-user to find information, and the familiarity of having …
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Quality Project Manager in Customer Service at DRA (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
The other helps out only for files and project management. With Workplace place you can go farther in project management and communication between the different teams. It's really a game-changer for every company that as adopts this tool. If you take it, you will see a really …
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Senior Software Quality Engineer in Quality Assurance at Sumerge Software Solutions (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Any other tool used before is not UI familiar as Workplace by Facebook. So now most of companies are migrating to Workplace because it's very easy to use, UI is perfect similar to Facebook which is widely used by everyone now. Also to keep fun in organizations after the …
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
The other video conference tools out there are more polished and robust. We still use Zoom for larger, important calls; calls with clients outside our organization (who don't have access to Workplace by Facebook Chat); and when we need to share screens to a group call …
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Researcher in Engineering at Instituto de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Workplace by Facebook offers more features with less of a learning curve than other options, which has helped adoption and usefulness. It is built for communication, which it excels at. However, it is not built to address all business needs and other project management, …
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RPA UiPath Developer in Information Technology at Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Facebook is the one Common word across Globe. Almost Everyone knows how to use it. And if this is capable of handling workplace requirements, then it is perfect competitor for anything in market.
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Verified User
Chose Workplace from Meta (discontinued)
Workplace offers more features with less of a learning curve than other options, which has helped adoption and usefulness. It is built for communication, which it excels at, but it is not built to address all business needs and other project management, document review, and …
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Slack is ideal for Scrum and agile teams that need continuous communication during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, testing, and retrospectives. Slack is well-suited for maintaining team knowledge through searchable conversations and dedicated channels, where experienced team members help onboard new QA analysts.
Well suited: - leadership communication. When our CEO posts a video to all company - it always gets the highest engagement - recognition/achievements posts - live streams for education, knowledge sharing - we are a company of 12000 associates and there is no other corporate channel for us to gather more than 500 people in one place. Less appropriate: - sharing some very targetted messages - it's impossible to do at Workplace without creating a group. So we use email channel for such targetted communications - instant communication like in a chat (probably it's less appropriate in our specific case because we use MS Teams for such quick communication instead of WP chats)
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Customer issues: Threads feature allows us to group a particular issue in a single thread and discuss within that thread. I can use the thread link to embed in JIRA ticket for tracking progress in JIRA (which is our details engineering tracking system).
Ability to add folder to Slack channel helps keep important information, documents easily accessible. e.g., we use this to keep a "ramp up" folder that can be used by any new joiner.
Global search is effective when I forget which group a particular message was in.
Bring groups of people together to share info, stories, updates, etc.
The chat app is pretty decent.
Workplace Live is a good large-group meeting broadcast platform.
It's pretty intuitive to use for anyone who's used Facebook.
It provides different levels of "security" for groups, allowing you to have open, closed, and "secret" groups.
It's easy to paste images into your posts and comments, without having to necessarily go through the process of saving an image as a file, etc.
It has search capabilities for finding old information.
It's available for both desktop/laptop and mobile devices.
It's secured to allow only those within the company to see company-related info (but it also has a few inter-company groups, which can be useful, too).
Workplace Chat has the ability to set it to Do Not Disturb.
You can set notifications, including email notifications, if you want to be alerted to new activity in your groups, etc.
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Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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It would be helpful if a review confirmation checkbox was able to be placed by files that needed to be read or reviewed. Along the same line, approve, review again, etc. would be helpful checkboxes to add by files, proposals.
The layout is clean but suffers a bit from the center column width with two sidebars and a lot of empty space. It almost looks like a going out of business sale retail store where you notice the empty shelves. Workplace feels a bit bare at times. I think some good design modifications can help. Now on mobile, it is a great layout. I am addressing specifically the desktop browser login.
An admin control dashboard would be really effective and even more so with more users on the platform.
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To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
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Having to download multiple apps just to use the tool is very cumbersome. Facebook would have make this better by wrapping it in as a main feature within their app, but having to use multiple apps to see discussions and walls is so frustrating.
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Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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Workplace by Facebook is an excellent fit in respect of support and documentation. It has excellent tutorials and documentation, as well. The UI and UX are already great as it is developed and maintained by Facebook, so most of the times, there is no need for any support or documentation.
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I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
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Workplace by Facebook is so much more than just a project management tool like Basecamp or Slack. The ability to disseminate information to employees is easier and better with Workplace by Facebook. It can also be used for informal messaging and sharing of information. It combines the best features of both with the same look and feel as Facebook.
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Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
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We can meet the project times, that with the communication in real time.
We provide solutions to our suppliers in a reliable and efficient manner.
When a business can save time and at the same time respond to the demands of customers, this translates into greater market capture of action for the company.
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