Official reason
Workplace will be discontinued; customers directed to other tools.
Meta · Productivity
Workplace
RIP
2016–2026 · 10 years in market
Facebook for companies. Lost the enterprise war to Slack and Teams; scheduled for shutdown.
Launched
Oct 10, 2016
Discontinued
Aug 31, 2026
Cause of death
Lost to a competitor
What actually happened
Enterprise requires a sales motion, compliance, and a product that is not ‘Facebook but beige.’
Lesson
Consumer DNA does not automatically transfer to work. IT buyers are not your newsfeed.
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Salesforce
Slack
The workplace chat people chose.
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams
The default via Office bundling.
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