In Humaans, departments and teams act as two different ways of grouping individuals in an organisation. In this guide, you'll learn about the differences and how to assign employee's to each.
Teams
Teams are tags to group individuals. Employees can have multiple team tags as they may belong to multiple teams, projects or work streams.
These can be used to nest teams into larger groups e.g. Sales and CS into a Commercial team or alternatively if can be used to group cross functional project teams e.g. employees from engineering, design and marketing for a Project website redesign.
You can still filter Insights and Reports based on these tags as outlined in the image below but you can see how they can show cross departmental insights.
You can add employees to teams in their profile:
In the People dashboard, click the employee's profile, then click Full profile.
Under their profile icon, hover over the add team tag, then either select an existing team or create a new one by typing in the empty field provided.
You can also hover over existing team tags and click them to remove the employee from them.
Departments
Departments are a grouping of people typically into a functional area e.g. Sales, Customer Success, Product, HR. Each employee can only belong to one department. Insights and Reports use departments as a way to divide data particularly in the graphs displayed under the insights tab.
Departments are more traditional orgs which define your job function and you are always part of one of them.
To learn more about how to add/update an employee's department, see Updating employment details.