Organizing your team into teams

A team is a named group of people on your workspace team, for example "Steering Committee" or "Canvass Leads." Teams don't carry permissions of their own; they're a reusable way to say "these specific people" so you don't have to pick names one at a time every time you need to reference that group. Manage them from Settings, then Access, then Teams.

Creating a team

Open Teams and select New team. Give it a name (team names must be unique within your organization) and an optional description. Once created, open the team to add members: search for anyone on your workspace team and add them, or remove members later from the same screen.

What teams are used for

The main place teams show up today is private channels. When a channel admin makes a channel private, they can grant access to specific people or to an entire team at once. Granting a team access makes every current and future member of that team eligible to see and join the channel — add someone to the team later and they inherit access automatically, without anyone having to update the channel's settings. See Channels for how channel access and visibility work.

A team can also belong to a department. If your organization uses departments to delegate administration, assigning a team to a department is a quick way to keep that team's membership aligned with who a department admin already manages. Deleting a department doesn't delete its teams; they simply become workspace-level teams again.

Why this matters

Reusable teams save you from re-picking the same list of people every time you configure a private channel or need to reference a standing group. Because team membership is centralized, adding or removing someone from the team updates every place that team is referenced at once, instead of you having to remember every channel or setting that named that person individually.