Hi Peter Atherton, thanks for the response. Unfortunately i don't get the option in teams to 'Add Microsoft Teams to an existing Office 365 group'. I do with my personal tenant, but with the work tenant, i don't. What's bizzare at work is that for some reason no users have the capability to create a 365 Group in Admin Center. However, we can inadvertantly create a group by creating a new team. The boys in our IT department apparently have global admin but are still unable to create a 365 group in admin center.
*edit: interestingly enough. I tried again adding a planner tab via MS Teams (choosing an existing planner). I did this before but tasks weren't appearing in Planner Hub (which was a bummer). However, this time everything seems synchronised and is appearing in hub! I've tested tasks in Teams and on the planner website, it's all in sync. I'm positive i did nothing different but at least now its working.