Facebook wants your boss to let you use Facebook

For five years, Ólafur Hand tried get his company to use Microsoft's Yammer. 

As the marketing head of Eimskip, a 102-year-old shipping and logistics company in Iceland, he was looking for a way to connect all 1,600 of his employees across 19 countries.

It was unsuccessful. "People just didn't see the reason," Hand told Mashable. 

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Hand discovered an alternative one day last year when golfing with the CFO of Icelandair. His golf partner had recently read on an overseas flight an article about Facebook creating its own enterprise software. Facebook recently had secured the Royal Bank of Scotland as a customer, with 100,000 workers committed to join service by the end of 2016, he said.  Read more...

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Source: www.Mashable.com