Google Workspace Essentials

Formerly G Suite Essentials

We use Google Workspace Essentials for team communication and document storage/management. We use Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Meet in our business.

Our business uses Google Workspace for internal and external communications, along with calendaring and managing staff email accounts. We love having the ability to instant message important information fast and secure with our team members. Additionally, having the ability to organize folders and subfolders helps us stay organized and on task.

Google Workspace Essentials is how our company ensures the productivity and visibility of our remote team. Google Workspace Essentials also allows bringing the team together by allowing us to work on and share documents, sheets, and/or presentations in real-time. One of the big issues Google Workspace Essentials has solved for our operations, and the HR department is being able to keep track of where each document goes. Being able to see who manipulated the document and how and when has been a big plus when it comes to making decisions based on what our team has worked on.

It has worked well for us through the years. Recently, in my experience, we have had more and more issues syncing between users and integrating with other products. Now it appears the platform is going to be subscription only. We will not be continuing to use, in my opinion, a lesser product AND pay more. Until the past year or two, I have been a HUGE fan of Google Workspace Essentials. I would have highly recommended it until recently.

We use Google Workspace Essentials for emails, calendars, and documents creation and sharing. The tool is easy to use as a lot of people are familiar with the layout from their private accounts. The only piece I miss in the package is an IM communicator that could replace Slack as an everyday channel.

We use Google Workspace Essentials for our cloud-hosted office applications for easy creation, collaboration, organization, and productivity from any location with access to the Internet. We also use it for live chat, email, video conferencing, and group chats on a daily basis to stay productive in a dynamic work environment. We use Gmail, Google Docs including Sheet and Slides, we use Google Drive for files, Google Calendar for scheduling, Google Meets for meetings every single workday. Effectively we can attend to our clients' and organization's needs together where we are able to see what is happening across the board in real-time to stay effective and efficient in our work.

We use it as a sign-in provider, as a mail provider, and also as a security provider for DLP. I love the simplicity of the admin side the OAuth in other services is so easy to use and so easy to manage if you want to remove your account permissions.

Overall, Google Workspace Essentials is a reliable network drive that allows users to share content and update it for work purposes. Sometimes it can be time-consuming in that it doesn't always sync in real-time the way that you would need it to, but in the end, it will do the syncing if you have enough patience. Moving files and folders around can sometimes feel as if it's taking too many steps to accomplish, but I can't think of an easier way right now. It does the job in the end.

We use it for email and calendar management, use the drive for all document creation and sharing, the chat as the main app for team communication and use the meeting feature as the meeting app for the meetings we set and record them.

Google Workspace is a great all-in-one resource for the busy solopreneur from email to file storage at is instrumental in my business and I use it on a daily basis.

We use Google Workspace essentials for almost all of our everyday office work. We use most modules in the solution including meet, sheets, slides, and also docs. For seamless synching of documentation in the cloud and also to conduct business activities google Workspace is a godsend and we have started using the solution almost every minute of every day. I would highly recommend the solution as it contains pretty much anything that a business of small, medium or large scale might require. It is also molded to fit the needs of seamless documentation synch and sharing. So, if you work in a collaborative team like ours and need that capability then you are all set. We also take advantage of the superior call qualities and meeting capabilities of the Google meet meeting solution. That is also recommended from my side for internal and client meetings as most of the world have gone virtual these days.

We are an extremely small, collaborative, cross-departmental team, so it is imperative that, particularly over the course of the pandemic, we have one centralized location where multiple hands can be on multiple projects at the same time. Google Workspace Essentials allows for the exact kind of remote-based, team-centric workflow that we need. Everything is in one place, and the various programs and add-ons all inform one another and help build the consistency and efficiency of our operations.

I have used Google Workspace Essentials at almost all the jobs that I've done over the last three years. I like using it because I'm already very familiar with Google and most of its products, so it doesn't take a lot of getting used to on my end. Also, since Google is so universal, adjusting from one company to another is very easy. Another benefit that I've had so far is that it is very easy to use on my devices, and I do not have to worry about losing anything (time) switching to another device. The best thing for me is the fact that Google has so many products, and everything is synced to my Google Workspace Essentials, so if you're forgetful like myself, you won't have any issue losing track of your work.

We use Google Workspace Essentials at my company for all email communications, as well as internal/external video conferencing. We have found video conferencing to be clean, effective, and feature-rich. The interface is extremely easy to work with, so we've never had any issues with employees not understanding the platform. As far as email communication is concerned, Google Workspace Essentials is incredibly simple to use as it parallels the personal email experience of many of our employees. The platform integrates well with our CRM, which is a MUST for the sales team. This allows us to communicate with our customers directly in our CRM or directly in our inbox and gives us the ability to manage calendars, tasks, and communication from a single webpage. We are very happy with Google Workspace Essentials!

We were early adopters of G Suite in order to take advantage of the email address extensions and shared storage space. Even with the change over to Google Workspace Essentials, and increased fees, we find great value in the ability to use our church web address in our email with the security of Google. We have continued to use Google Docs and other workspace tools for collaboration in staff meetings and in shared storage of files.