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Salesforce gobbles 'Facebook for the office' startup

Salesforce has made a bold move into human resources software by buying up Rypple - a social platform for the workplace. Announced yesterday, the sum exchanged is unknown, but the deal should complete by April next year. Rypple, a Toronto-based startup, is a Facebook for offices, used by, er, Facebook to manage its staff. The …

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WTF?

How sad

Says Molly Graham of facebook

"Our idea of fun as a company is people staying up all night working"

???

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Great.

So I'm "Human Capital" now? Makes a change from being "resource", I suppose.

Just one small change

And HCM is Human Cattle Management.

Which I guess is how the HCM departments are already thinking anyway.

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They call you capital

... because they use you until you are spent.

So now I really can poke the receptionist

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