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Facebook at work: Is the social network moving into the office?

Anyone who gets caught while working on Facebook often risks not only bad looks, but also an unpleasant conversation with the boss. But help is approaching, because soon there will be a business version.

Facebook and work? This combination did not fit very well so far ...
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To congratulate ex-classmates happy birthday, like the profile photo of the best friend and just watch this one video - and then it can go on with the work ... Facebook can be a big distraction in the job - that's what you can do In particular, there are many companies that block the network for their employees.

A new concept should change that and lift Facebook from friendship to business . As the project is fittingly called, ' Facebook at work ' aims to connect employees outside of their private profiles and make communication at work much easier. Messages and documents should be able to be exchanged even faster with the service.

Thus, the social network joins the ranks of business networks such as LinkedIn, Xing. How 'Facebook at work' is adopted by companies, however, is in the stars. Finally, they would have to be ready to have internal data stored on Facebook servers.

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