Workplace by Meta is Shutting Down: Here’s what You Need to Know

Change is a good thing.

If you’re one of the people in charge of a Workplace by Meta implementation at your organization, it’s unlikely that you’re excited about the deadline to move your company to something new. Repeating your implementation process after the Meta Workplace shutdown with a new organization is certainly more work than you expected right now, but if you approach this change right, that work will pay off with higher adoption, stronger engagement, easier communications, and more.

Whether Meta offered the perfect solution for your digital workplace needs or not, it’s important to view as an opportunity for improvement—not just a default solution or a stop-gap. This is your excuse to move from Workplace by Meta to a purpose-built communication platform that frees your organization to accomplish more.

What can you accomplish with the right intranet?

Workplace by Meta wasn’t perfect—with security concerns, a UI many felt was clunky, and other challenges, there have always been better options. But it did strive to be a more complete digital ecosystem that supported collaboration, knowledge sharing, and culture. The work to an employee communications platform like Workvivo will strip many of the core functionalities Meta users relied on.

Igloo is one of the intranet providers who creates complete digital workplaces that go beyond even what the best Meta implementations had to offer. Let’s look at just a few key areas where Meta users can not only ensure continuity of service across their original Workplace functionalities, but even address new challenges and improve data security, knowledge management, and employee engagement—without introducing unnecessary costs.

Employee communications

This is the one area you can still expect to be served by Workvivo, but consider that even in this task, other platforms may be better suited to the job. Igloo is one of the only intranet platforms that supports desktop and mobile users alike, including powerful communications tools like generative AI writing assistants, social media style feeds, and built-in translation services.

Igloo even offers a sophisticated campaign manager that turns corporate communications into a targeted, strategic initiative that can be planned out in advance and delivered tactically to the whole company or individual groups.

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Knowledge management

This is a big one for office workers, but it also has serious value for frontline teams who use their phones to access policies, pay stubs, and more. Igloo simplifies and streamlines knowledge management for every user. By centralizing all your policies, procedures, creative, FAQs, and work product in a central, searchable location, employees can spend less time searching for files across multiple channels, and more time leveraging trustworthy, accurate information.

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Collaboration

Working on a project over Zoom and Slack was an acceptable stop-gap as organizations transitioned to digital ways of working, but there’s no excuse to rely on ill-fitting methods anymore. Top intranets like Igloo offer ways for teams across the entire organization to come together in a centralized environment and collaborate on a given initiative. After the collaboration has concluded, the work product lives on in a clear, accessible home where it can be leveraged by other teams or revisited for future iterations.

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Productivity

One of the most critical aspects of a fully featured digital workplace compared to a communications-only solution is its ability to streamline the work you’re already doing. Harvard Business Review conducted a survey in which they found the typical worker loses five weeks out of the year to the simple task of navigating back and forth between numerous business systems and apps. This is just one of the daily hassles that can be eliminated by the right digital workplace.

Igloo integrates with your favorite business apps, allowing your teams to create their own centralized workflows that span multiple systems. Even better, features like the AI-powered Igloo Digital Assistant allow employees to task a helpful AI bot with the chore of finding resources and information across these multiple different systems. From fetching a frontline worker’s pay stubs to accelerating vacation request approvals, the Igloo Digital Assistant makes everyone’s work a little easier and a lot less frustrating.

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Choose your Workplace by Meta replacement wisely.

There’s no shortage of options in your search for a new digital workplace—and it should be a search. Don’t default to the first option presented to you by a company in the process of shuttering your current solution. The great thing about the increasing digitization of the workplace is that intranet providers are rising to the challenge, driving innovation that goes well beyond basic employee communications.

Igloo connects your entire organization in a single, central intranet platform that stands out as the only digital workplace suited to the needs of both frontline and desked workers alike. Our team has partnered with hundreds of organizations to centralize knowledge, improve communications, strengthen employee engagement, and ensure security at scale, and we encourage Meta users to see how much more they could achieve with the right platform.

Get in touch with one of our intranet experts today for a closer look, and to learn about how easy we make the implementation and adoption process for new users. You’ll soon learn that the end of Workplace is the beginning of something better for your organization.