Facebook is making ‘Facebook at Work’


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to students during an special assembly at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Zuckerberg participated in the assembly as part of Facebook’s campaign to 
encourage students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math or what are otherwise known as STEM fields.
Facebook is working on extending its network beyond the social realm and into the professional world, reports technology-based news site Mashable.
The company’s new, enterprise-focused product will be similar to the functionality of its current site, with a newsfeed, groups and messaging capability, Mashable said quoting the Financial Times.
However, it will also include collaborative tools for work on shared documents. Facebook at Work will be entirely separate from personal accounts, with no information from a user’s social profile appearing on his or her professional page, and vice versa.
Facebook at Work is currently in an early pilot programme that is based out of London. At the time of this writing, it does not host advertising.
Facebook employees are known to use the site internally for work. Creating a new, separate network for businesses would bring the company into competition with Google, Microsoft and IBM, which all offer enterprise tools.
A Facebook representative declined to comment.