Official line
Workplace will be discontinued; customers directed to other tools.
Meta · Productivity · Product
Workplace
Discontinued
2016–2026 · 10 years in market
Launched
Oct 10, 2016
Discontinued
Aug 31, 2026
Cause of death
Lost to a competitor
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Facebook for companies. Lost the enterprise war to Slack and Teams; scheduled for shutdown.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Enterprise requires a sales motion, compliance, and a product that is not ‘Facebook but beige.’
Founder takeaway
Consumer DNA does not automatically transfer to work. IT buyers are not your newsfeed.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
Salesforce
Slack
The workplace chat people chose.
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams
The default via Office bundling.
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