We have created, among others, the following internal department teams in our Teams app:
- All
- Accounting
- Client Services
- Marketing
- Sales
- Tech
Each team has their own channels for projects for which their department is the primary champion. For example, most client projects are set up as channels within 'Client Services' team, but the entire company should have access to those.
The problem we have is that most projects (channels) need to be accessible by everyone. To get around this, my boss added all staff members as a member to every team. One of the problems that creates is any @ mention of a team is going to all staff, because all staff are members of everything. @ Tech is the entire company, and @ Accounting is the entire company, which makes those useless. Ideally we would have "members" of a Team, and then internal guests of that Team who are able to browse and access its resources, but it appears guests are only for external users, and it doesn't work like that.
Is there a better approach to set up our teams/channels so that we can have company-wide access to most projects but also leverage internal department teams?
