Facebook Workplace
With the offers of live video and audio conferencing, file sharing, and a private and group messaging system, Workplace by Facebook is another communication app that offers simplicity due to the framework’s similarity of the familiar social media platform. This is complemented by the ability to integrate with business tools such as Envoy, Jira, Zoom, and Salesforce. Operated on a freemium model, Workplace costs Rs.215/user/month.
MS Teams
Developed by Microsoft, MS Teams is a tool that offers communication services for businesses, with capabilities rivalling Slack and its alternatives. The main useful features are toward supporting the team with live communication complete with video conferencing, messaging, threads, file and screen sharing. With a freemium model costing Rs.360/user/month, a small aspect of improvement would be its default push notification system
Slack
Essentially a chat room designed for a company, the main objective of Slack was with the intent to replace email as the method of communication and sharing, with its workspaces allowing for organizing communications by channels for group conferences. It also allows for private messages for sharing information and files. Priced at Rs. 191/user/month, Slack has limitations; most notably that it could be difficult to adopt by users who are non-technical and therefore new to the expansive interface and functionality.