Facebook Adds 36,000 Telenor Employees

Facebook has added 36,000 Telenor employees for Facebook at Work.

Facebook at Work- which is the corporate platform derived by the social media giant enables businesses to establish their own social networks that are secure. The company has been successful in having 60,000 firms on the waiting list while it is still in closed beta.

Facebook Inc. is geared up to launch this service globally along with various new features such as an app platform by the end of 2016. The company is proudly announcing its collaboration with Telenor, a wireless network carrier service based in Norway with operations in 13 countries globally- its new big client. After this, the company will have 36,000 employees worldwide.

The President and Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Group, Mr. Sigve Brekke told TechCrunch that Telenor has been one of those companies which tried the product in coherence with a bigger collaboration with the social media giant. The idea is to transform the way people work internally. This encompasses not just how one communicate to employees but making use of groups so that the contemporary work structure gets modified and we get better communication in return.

The company chose the social media giant since many employees already use the platform and are comfortable with it. Be it on desktop or in the regions where Telenor is operations on mobiles.

Telenor is rendering its services in emerging markets like Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh along with minor stakes in 14 more companies. The wireless giant is said to be the eraly collaborator on ventures like Free Basics along with the efforts Facebook has been making in terms of engineering to expand the reach of its mobile network like Infra (which was launched during the Mobile World Congress).

There are presently almost 450 companies that are making use of Facebook at Work where more and more companies are being added on a steady pace. The reason why each and every one are not being highlighted is that Telenor is notable amongst them all.

Julien Codorniouo, the head of Facebook at Work’s global offering claims that Telenor is the biggest enterprise to join forces with them to date. The service is a global network carrier. There other companies who have plans of doing so but so far it is just Facebook.

And to have a carrier also means that the company might want to grow its consumer base in the future. Carriers generally have a strong hold in the Information Technology business where services are retailed which is present on their network. Thus, making them a sales channel for the social media platform.

One of the core reasons that a channel carrier makes perfect sense is that it can assist the social media behemoth to scale its business without the need of scaling its own employees. As per the company, sales is said to be that area which is considered to be the major bottleneck for the firm whilst they are striving to scale the enterprise business. Hence, the collaboration makes perfecr sense for Facebook considering the long term prospects.