Meta to discontinue Workplace app in order to shift focus towards AI and metaverse development

Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday that it will be discontinuing its Workplace app, a work-focused communication platform, in order to shift its focus towards building artificial intelligence and metaverse technologies. The company stated that Workplace will be shut down for customers starting in June 2026, but Meta will continue to use it as its internal messaging board until August 2025.

A spokesperson for Meta explained, “We are discontinuing Workplace to focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally reshape the way we work. Over the next two years, we will provide our Workplace customers the option to transition to Zoom’s Workvivo product, Meta’s only preferred migration partner.”

Workplace was first introduced in 2016 for businesses, offering features such as multi-company groups and shared spaces to facilitate collaboration among employees from different organizations. The decision to discontinue the app comes as Meta increases its investments in AI products and the metaverse, a virtual shared environment seen as the future of the internet.

Despite the discontinuation of Workplace, the billing and payment arrangements for customers will remain the same until August of this year. Workplace currently offers a monthly core plan priced at $4 per user, with additional add-ons available starting from $2 per user each month. The monthly bill is calculated based on the number of billable users unless an organization has a fixed plan in place.