Compare LumApps versus Meta Workplace: Which is better?

In the modern work environment of distributed teams and uncertainty surrounding continued tech layoffs, many teams are choosing to invest in their employee experience. 

Employee experience is made up of every interaction that an employee has with a company, and the impact it has on their outlook and opinion towards the company. A positive employee experience can certainly impact your ability to retain top-performing employees. 

If your team is looking for a way to build connections across teams, streamline communication flow, and improve productivity, an employee experience platform could be the solution. 

Here’s a comparison of two popular employee communication platforms - LumApps versus Meta Workplace - to help determine which is best for your team. 

What is LumApps?

LumApps is an employee experience platform that encourages employee collaboration, communication, and streamlines workplace productivity. LumApps is sometimes referred to as a “modern intranet” because it allows employees to create posts, comment and interact with other posts, create virtual spaces, and build a digital headquarters to share company resources and foster community. The LumApps platform also helps improve productivity via a digital assistant that employees can utilize for self-service of common IT or HR tasks. 

What is Meta Workplace?

Workplace from Meta is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and is an all-in-one business communication platform that combines Facebook features like chat, video, and social groups. Workplace is a common choice because of its familiarity since the platform looks and acts similar to the popular Facebook interface that everyone knows. 

What is the difference between LumApps and Workplace?

On the surface, it might seem like LumApps and Workplace are very similar. On one hand, they both offer social networking capabilities and the ability to share video. But, if a truly branded and customized experience is important to your company, you may prefer LumApps, which can be tailored to mimic your company’s branding. Plus, it has the ability to create multiple sites to support global, multi-brand organizations. 

While Workplace does a nice job of creating a social networking environment, LumApps helps create a digital headquarters. Within your digital headquarters, you can create an organized and streamlined place to share company announcements and important documents. You can organize spaces by interest group or team, share company planning and messaging documents, and each employee can receive both a tailored content experience as well as important company-wide announcements. 

Here’s a complete overview of the features offered by LumApps and Workplace. See how they compare to choose the solution that is best for your company.  

Features Overview

LumApps vs Workplace on video & social connections

Both platforms offer the ability to send company announcements. Workplace may have the advantage in streaming live video, but LumApps has robust video storage capabilities and privacy features that prevents employees from downloading video. 

Workplace is limited in the contribution experience, which is mainly limited to short posts much like on the public Facebook. LumApps, on the other hand, has the ability to create posts or longer articles. Employees can join communities and can subscribe to updates from other communities that are of interest. I.e. you can get news pertinent to your assigned team and the platform allows you to receive updates from other teams, which encourages cross functional collaboration. 

LumApps vs Workplace information sharing

When you have an important company announcement that all employees should read, both LumApps and Workplace have the ability to highlight important updates. On Workplace you can pin posts to the top of the news feed and you can designate a high, medium, or low urgency level. Workplace allows you to send a push email notification to get extra eyes on your post. 

But what about deskless employees? LumApps takes this notification process a step further with push notifications to email, app, or mobile phone. You can also set up ‘campaigns’ to designate a schedule for push notifications with targeted messaging and timed delivery. 

LumApps vs Workplace performance & uptime

Meta Workplace uses a Processor to Processor module of the new SCCs. Workplace does not advertise an uptime rate or guarantee, but there is a status website where they report outages and known issues. 

LumApps boasts a service level agreement uptime of 99.9%, with both cloud providers (Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure); meaning downtime is extremely rare and noncritical.

So which one should you choose? 

Workplace might be the winner for you if you want to stream live video. That’s a native feature that could be a standout. 

Workplace is not intended for corporate communications and knowledge management, as content is hard to organize, and quickly becomes lost and siloed.

LumApps, on the other hand, is a good choice if you want hyper-personalized, thoughtful communications. Plus, you can utilize the built-in  for you if you want to utilize a digital assistant to streamline productivity. The LumApps digital assistant can help employees self-serve on IT tasks (such as resetting passwords) or HR queries by searching the database for common answers and solutions. 

If you want a comprehensive employee experience platform that is regularly improved and invested in, LumApps would be a good solution for your team. 

Want to see how LumApps can empower your team? Book a demo today.