Facebook has launched a social network for companies

Facebook launched the Workplace website, a paid social network for work communication.

The site is designed in almost the same way as Facebook, while users of the popular social network will need a separate account to work on it. Workplace, unlike Facebook, will not have ads.

Workplace does not provide a service for working with documents, writes Recode. Early posts about Facebook at Work (working name for the network) reported that the service might have such a feature.

Workplace costs $3 per person per month if there are fewer than 1,000 active users on the network. Companies with more than a thousand and more than ten thousand people will pay $2 and $1 per user per month, respectively.

Recode notes that low price is one of Workplace's main competitive advantages. In comparison, the standard cost of Slack, one of the most popular work communication services, is $6.67 per user per month. In addition, the newspaper writes, "everyone knows how to use Facebook."

According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Workplace was born as a "facebook version" for company employees to communicate. Later, it was decided to adapt the service for mass use. About a thousand companies took part in testing Workplace.

• The fact that Facebook is developing a social network for companies became known in 2014. The project was known under the working title Facebook at Work. The network was supposed to allow users to communicate with colleagues, find professional contacts and collaborate on documents.