Meta Platforms is shutting down Workplace, a version of Facebook built for businesses that was meant to rival workplace productivity tools like Slack. Customers will be able to use the service until the end of August 2025, a spokesperson for Meta said. Workplace had as many as 7 million paid subscribers in 2021.
“We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape the way we work,” the spokesperson said in a statement. The company will help its customers transition to Workvivo, a similar product from Zoom, the spokesperson added.
After Workplace shuts down in 2025, customers will be able to access their data until the end of May 2026, the spokesperson said. Meta will continue focusing on workplace products, they said, but in areas such as developing features for its Quest virtual reality headsets. Axios first reported on Meta’s plans.