Teams Essential Licenses

[Ashleigh1116]

Hi, I've recently created an intranet for our company via Sharepoint. We now need to figure out if it will be cost effective to add our hourly staff to this, the main tool we need is for communication and so want to replace Slack with Teams which management staff have already moved over to, and which I have integrated our intranet landing page to. My question is, if we purchase the essentials teams license for our hourly staff will they be able to access the intranet via teams with this license? Or does sharepoint only allow access with and office license? 

I should state that the hourly staff will only need to view the landing page as like a newsfeed.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

No Teams Teams Essential Licenses won't give you access to your intranet.

The License you are looking for is the F1 license. This is license is made for "Front Line Workers", which is for example hourly staff, store employees etc etc.

[#3]

Yes that looks like the best solution. Thanks for your help!

[#4]

How big is your organisation ? If it's bigger there are Pilots from Microsoft to try frontline workers 🙂

[#5]

Around 360 ppl?