Workplace by Meta is shutting down: Here’s what you need to know

The Workplace by Meta shutdown is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

Migrating business systems is never fun, especially when the move isn’t voluntary. 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 with a new organization is certainly more work than you expected right now, but if you approach this change with the right mindset, that work will pay off in ways you haven’t yet imagined.

Whether Meta offered the perfect solution for your digital workplace needs or not, it’s important to view this transition with a fresh perspective that expects something outstanding—not just a default solution or a stopgap. This is your opportunity to see what vendors could go above and beyond your existing Workplace solution; it’s a chance to take your workforce to a new level.

Are there better options than Workvivo?

It’s prudent to question the single option presented by Meta, who has pointed to Workvivo as their preferred migration partner. It’s unclear at this time whether Workvivo has the capability to meet the needs of Meta customers as the Workplace platform goes offline as of June 1, 2026—after all, Workvivo touts itself as a communications platform at a time when most organizations are searching for more fully featured digital workforce solutions.

Leading digital workplace providers like Igloo have been the go-to option for organizations as they realize the limitations of a simple, two-way communications tool. Why take a step backward when you have the opportunity to seek out a fully featured solution that promises so much more than just employee communications?

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 productivity, engagement, and culture in entirely new ways.

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 offers tailored experiences for 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.

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 the digital workplace. Igloo offers the ability to manage corporate knowledge in different ways that align with the specific way the knowledge in question will be used and accessed. 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. It’s a simple way to take your knowledge further.

Collaboration

Working on a project over Zoom and Slack was an acceptable stopgap 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, business units, and even 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.

Productivity

One of the most critical aspects of a fully featured digital workplace over 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.

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’s answer to these new trends was an entirely new platform designed with the future in mind. After maintaining an industry-leading platform since 2008, we knew that this was the right time to unveil something new and exciting to leapfrog the current intranet solutions on offer. We’re really proud of the clever new ways that our Igloo Flex platform supports all different types of work in offices and frontlines, 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 process for new users. You’ll soon learn that the end of Workplace is the beginning of something better for your organization.

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