The future of work: enterprise social networks and coworking

Singapore

THE office as we know it is transforming. What is now a building or set of rooms used as a place of business will fundamentally be reconfigured, driven by a greater need for collaboration and business agility, The Business Times has learnt.

Two themes will prevail: One is the use of enterprise social networking, and the other, co-working.

Enterprise social networking, the workplace equivalent of Facebook, ramps up communication among employees of a company; they can chat, post updates, share live videos, arrange for meetings, and run polls.

Facebook on Monday officially launched one such platform called Workplace, aimed at helping organisations collaborate better and get more done. Already, more than 1,000 organisations globally are using the service, paying between …