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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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  1. Colin Millar
    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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  2. Seanmon
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    Great.

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

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    1. Justicesays
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      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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    2. Chris 3
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      They call you capital

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

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  3. pompurin

    So now I really can poke the receptionist

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