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Departments

A department is a team in your company — and its own workspace. Department heads become the workspace's admins, employees become its members, and every agentic room or project room the department opens lives inside it. Company owners and admins create and manage departments; everyone can see the departments they belong to.

How to create a department​

  1. Open Company settings › Departments (or select Departments under Members in the company dropdown).
  2. Select New department.
  3. Type the department name, for example Engineering, Finance or Sales. Suggestions appear as you type.
  4. Under Workspace, choose:
    • Create new — a workspace with the department's name is created for it.
    • Connect existing — pick one of your workspaces. It becomes the department's workspace and is renamed to the department name. Everyone already in it stays.
  5. Under People, tick the people to include. The first person you add becomes a Head; everyone after joins as an Employee. Select a badge to switch someone between Head and Employee.
  6. Select Create.

The department's workspace appears in your Office tab alongside your other workspaces.

tip

You can also create departments while building your office with the AI Office creator — turn on the Department pill on a workspace.

How to add people to a department​

  1. On the department card, select Add.
  2. Tick the people to add and set each one's badge to Head or Employee.
  3. Confirm.

To change someone's role later, open the menu on their row and choose Make department head or Make employee. Also make reporting head adds them to Reporting heads as well.

How to remove someone from a department​

  1. Open the menu on the person's row and choose Remove from department.
  2. If they are in department rooms, choose Keep room access to leave them in those rooms, or Remove from all to take them out of the rooms too.

Department menu​

Select ⋯ on a department card for:

  • Rename
  • Open workspace — go to the department's workspace.
  • Resync members — bring the workspace's members back in line with the department. A resync link also appears on the card when they drift apart.
  • Enable announcements / Disable announcements — turn on the department's announcement room. See AI announcements.
  • Create workspace / Connect existing — shown when the department has no workspace yet.
  • Delete department — the department goes; its workspace and everything in it are kept.

Org chart​

Select Org chart to see departments, their heads and people as a chart you can pan and zoom. Switch between Departments and Reporting heads at the top.