How accessibility in the workplace is evolving

Making spaces and technologies work better, facilitating access, easing tasks, and reducing costs for people of different abilities are critical goals for many organizations who strive to create more inclusive workplaces – but more importantly, for the more than one-in-five (22%) Canadians living with a disability.

Companies like Amazon have their own affinity group for employees with disabilities and aims to build a community that supports employees and customers who have mental/physical disabilities.

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Facebook’s Slack competitor is now out of beta

Facebook is done beta testing its Facebook at Work service. Now called Workplace, this enterprise service charges its customers a per-user subscription fee each month. This guarantees no ads in the service, though. Also, it’s separate from your personal Facebook account so it does help lessen the distraction a bit (for now at least). Don’t expect it to offer so many productivity tools a la Microsoft Office suite. For now it’s a communication tool, much like Slack, but at lower prices.

They are charging: US$3 per user for companies with fewer than 1,000 monthly active users, US$2 per user for companies with 1,001 – 10,000 monthly active users, and US$1 per use for companies with 10,000+ monthly active users. For comparison, Slack has a free version but the “standard” tier, which has unlimited message storage and group phone calls, and goes for US$6.67.

Source: Recode