Workplace from Meta Alternative: Compare LumApps vs Workplace

In May 2024, Meta announced the end of Workplace by Meta, its employee experience platform. As you prepare to migrate away from Workplace, consider a Magic Quadrant Leader for your next employee intranet. 

This is your opportunity to invest in what your enterprise truly needs. Workplace by Meta did social networking well, but it never really understood the enterprise – this is your chance to invest in a mature, modern intranet that scales with your employees and offers true customer support. 

If your team is looking for a way to build connections across teams, streamline communication flow, and improve productivity and project management, LumApps could be the best alternative to Meta Workplace for your needs. 

Nervous about migrating? Don't worry, we are experienced in this exact scenario! LumApps helped transition 7 large enterprise companies from Jive intranet after its shutdown. Check out this customer story about transitioning from a defunct platform to LumApps. 

Here’s the comparison of 2 popular employee communication platforms - LumApps versus Meta Workplace - to help determine if LumApps is the best Workplace intranet alternative. 

What is LumApps?

LumApps is a modern employee intranet that encourages employee collaboration, communication, and streamlines workplace productivity. LumApps allows employees to create posts, comment and interact with other posts, create virtual spaces, and build a digital headquarters to share important information, resources and foster community. The LumApps platform enhances team collaboration and also helps improve productivity via AI features that allow employees to self-serve common IT or HR tasks. 

LumApps is an award-winning platform ranked as a Leader in intranet solutions by both Forrester and Gartner. Plus, we are a 2-time winner of TrustRadius Top Rated Award in Best Intranet Software

What is Meta Workplace?

Workplace from Meta is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and is social networking platform for business that combines Facebook features like chat, video, and social groups. Unfortunately, Meta announced that Workplace will close down in 2025 and Workplace customers must look for an alternative

What is the difference between LumApps and Workplace?

On the surface, it might seem like LumApps and Workplace are similar. On one hand, they both offer social networking capabilities and the ability to share video. But, if a truly branded and customized experience is important to your company, you may prefer LumApps, which can be tailored to mimic your company’s branding. Plus, it has the ability to create multiple sites to support global, multi-brand organizations. 

While Workplace does a nice job of creating a social networking environment, LumApps helps create a digital headquarters. Within your digital headquarters, you can create an organized and streamlined place to share company announcements and important documents. You can organize spaces by interest group or team, share company planning and messaging documents, and each employee can receive both a tailored content experience as well as important company-wide announcements. 

On top of that, we cannot really define Meta Workplace as an intranet, but more as an internal communication platform, which puts it in direct competition with other tools such as Slack. LumApps cumulates many other features and therefore perfectly responds as a Meta Workplace alternative. 

Here’s a complete overview of the features offered by LumApps and Workplace. See how they compare to choose the solution that is best for your company.  

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Features Overview

LumApps vs Workplace on video conferencing & social connections

Both platforms offer the ability to send company announcements. Workplace may have the advantage in streaming live video, but LumApps has robust video storage capabilities and privacy features that prevents employees from downloading video. 

Workplace is limited in the contribution and user experience, which is mainly limited to short posts much like on the public Facebook. LumApps, on the other hand, has the ability to create posts or longer articles. Employees can join communities and can subscribe to updates from other communities of interest. I.e. you can get news pertinent to your assigned team and the platform allows you to receive updates from other team members (desk and frontline workers, top management & C-Levels, departments...), which encourages cross functional collaboration and rank us among the best collaboration platforms. 

LumApps vs Workplace company information sharing

When you have an important company announcement that all employees should read, both LumApps and Workplace have the ability to highlight important updates. On Workplace you can pin posts to the top of the news feed and you can designate a high, medium, or low urgency level. Workplace allows you to send a push email notification to get extra eyes on your post. 

But what about deskless employees? LumApps takes this notification process a step further with push notifications to email, desktop and mobile apps, or phone. You can also set up ‘campaigns’ to designate a schedule for push notifications with targeted messaging and timed delivery. 

LumApps vs Workplace performance & uptime

Meta Workplace uses a Processor to Processor module of the new SCCs. Workplace does not advertise an uptime rate or guarantee, but there is a status website where they report outages and known issues. 

LumApps boasts a service level agreement uptime of 99.9%, with both cloud providers (Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure); meaning downtime is extremely rare and noncritical.

So which one should you choose? 

Workplace might be the winner for you if you want to stream live video. That’s a native feature that could be a standout. 

Workplace is not intended for corporate communications and knowledge management, as content is hard to organize, and quickly becomes lost and siloed.

LumApps, on the other hand, is a good choice if you want hyper-personalized, thoughtful communications. Plus, you can utilize the built-in  for you if you want to utilize a digital assistant to streamline productivity. The LumApps digital assistant can help employees self-serve on IT tasks (such as resetting passwords) or HR queries by searching the database for common answers and solutions. 

If you want a comprehensive employee experience platform that is regularly improved and invested in, LumApps would be a good solution for your team. 

Want to see how LumApps can empower your team? Book a demo today. 

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