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Microsoft StaffHub
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- UnoriginalGuy 10y ago"For staff workers." Who are non-staff workers? That site has some very strange turn of phrases. Like: "How staff workers live, work, and communicate." Without too much explanation. Isn't this just work scheduling with a work Sharepoint portal? How does it help manage how I 'live?' Plus then the infographic which is obviously all teenagers (?) doing the pledge of allegiance (?). The product itself seems acceptable even if quite pricey ($4/user/month for shift scheduling gets pricey after about ten users compared to the competition). I am just pointing out how freaking strange the landing page is, blurbs, and iconography. Feels like they're recruiting for a cult.
- micaksica 10y agoIn this case "staff" appears to mean "hourly shift-based workers", eg restaurant staff. I agree it's a strange use of the term.
- fareesh 10y agoLooks like Microsoft has taken "Hi I'm PC" to a different level :D
- stonogo 10y agoNon-staff workers are generally line workers, but given the image in which someone is being notified of their bartending shift, I'm guessing Microsoft is using 'staff worker' to mean 'not a manager.' It looks like they're aiming this at small-business managers.
- colinbartlett 10y agoCurious, what's the competition? I'd love to explore the other SaaS solutions to this problem.
- rodhan 10y agoCheck out Bizimply: https://bizimply.com https://bizimply.com
- tracker1 10y agoIt isn't just shift scheduling, it's email hosting, online office and other services (the mentioned staffhub)... They're undercutting Google Docs, and offering more services. As interesting to me is email-only seems to be $2/user/month, which is really competitive to stand alone email providers.
- stereo 10y agoThey probably spent a lot of time creating this website. Yet it completely fails to explain what the product does.
- jmkni 10y agoI'm guessing it's basically fancy timesheets?
- mcbits 10y agoIt appears to be a digital version of the bulletin board in the break room where Donna posts the schedules, memos, etc.
- taylorlunt 10y agoCan't you see? It's Microsoft's next short-sighted money-making scheme.
- tracker1 10y agoIt's really an additional set of services being added to Office 365 targeting small and medium businesses. It also looks like the price is now lower than Google Docs on top of it. This doesn't seem short-sighted at all, in fact even if I were running a business that didn't have a lot of computers, I would consider this. Most people (with jobs), at least in the U.S. at this point have at least a smart phone that could access email, scheduling, etc. Even larger companies (such as fast food chains) could absolutely use this.
- sidcool 10y agoI can't comment on the content, but I like the design.
- hobarrera 10y agoGood design means it does a good job communicating something. This is most definitely not good design, since it fails completely to communicate anything.
- zilchers 10y agoSuper interesting for Microsoft to be releasing this narrow of a product. Don't get me wrong, there's probably a market, but Salesforce would never do this, for a big company it's a platform play, let a partner build the tiny time tracking app.
- DrBazza 10y agoNarrow product? Version 1, perhaps. But any of the millions of companies in the world could use this. It's a huge market. And a huge percentage of that market are entrenched Office users. Embrace, extend, and extinguish...
- tracker1 10y agoNot really embrace or extinguish... they're embracing the SaaS model, but in a lot of way's that's even more portable and able to move, provided sufficient tooling. It seems to me that they're offering a compelling competing product to what Google Docs has, and expanding upon it far more/better than where Google has. At least in terms of servicing business. This is actually pretty great. Leveraging a windows monopoly to encroach on other areas and using unpublished APIs for competitive advantage is quite different than this. I wish MS all the best with this one.
- smoyer 10y agoMicrosoft owns Yammer and has recently merged it into Office 365. I think the broader goal is to be the Enterprisy version of Slack, Trello, Google Docs (or other), etc. and to merge them into a single platform that they can lease as SaaS.
- tracker1 10y agoThe product is bundled with other Office 365 services and software (email, online office, yammer, etc).
- xyz-x 10y agoBad, rather funky, vibes! :)
- apapli 10y agoMore info here: http://www.superfluid.com.au/articles/introducing-microsoft-staffhub http://www.superfluid.com.au/articles/introducing-microsoft-...
- tracker1 10y agoFrom the comments, and even looking at the splash page it's pretty obvious MS really failed to point out that this is an additional service on top of what Office 365 (K1 level) offers... hosted email, online office, yammer, etc... and now the StaffHub (however that works in practice). It's an interesting idea, and the $4 pricing is definitely competing with Google Doc's $5 pricing that I've seen in some bundling. I think the $2/user/mo email only hosting is pretty interesting as well.