Google Workspace Essentials Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Workspace Essentials for all our daily corporate needs, including email, calendars, documentation, financial processing, virtual meetings, storage, website domain registration and billing, organizational/team groups and structures, contacts and directories, device and end point management, networks management, apps management, security management, data management and compliance, usage reporting, cost reporting, and account management. Google Workspace is the only organizational software that we use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Workspace is very well suited for daily organizational processes such as document authoring, reporting, document storage, billing, secured endpoint access, generative AI (Gemini) embedding into email writing, video conferences, user management, billing, domain registrations, and more. Internal and external data sharing across users and applications is easy. Data and user security are easy to deploy. There are some features that we are just beginning to use, such as Google Classroom, Voice, enhanced security policies, enhanced group management, Notebook, and audit and investigations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Workspace Essentials to monitor and administer Google Chrome browser. It allows us to configure the add-ins and extensions our users are installing, to better protect them from malicious extensions. We also are able to create a bookmark folder and have all of the relevant work related sites already saved in there when an employee starts. Every machine that goes out the door for our users is preconfigured with Google Chrome all set up the same way, and provisioned for efficient use.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are using Google Workspace Essentials for Chrome browser management, there are a multitude of configuations and settings to choose from. Pretty much anything in the browser can be locked down and hardened. We really only use it for that, and it is a cost effective and elegant solutions for what we need it for.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Workspace Essentials for our corporate email, calendar, documents, sheets, etc. It is used by every employee in the organization in our 14 offices. It makes collaboration easier and makes scheduling meetings very easy. It addresses all of our business collaboration and communication needs for the firm as a whole.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Workspace Essentials is well suited to collaboration, especially on creative teams who are editing documents frequently. It makes scheduling meetings pretty simple, although it can be tough to find meeting times with five or more attendees. Google Sheets are easy to share and gate when working on confidential data or projects in progress.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Workspace Essentials is truly the easiest way to collaborate on business items/content. Our company is fully remote, so we rely on Google Workspace Essentials to collaborate on projects and access documents, etc. For proposals, multiple team members can work on the same document simultaneously. There is also an "editing" feature in addition to the "comment" feature that allows you to suggest edits to any text or item on the doc. We leverage this tool a lot when QAing content.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

We've noticed that more and more companies are using Google Workplace. This is a plus for our company as most of the employees we have hired are familiar with your platform so it makes it easier to onboard a new employee. Our experience with Google Workspace has been very positive and haven't been any scenarios where the platform has been less appropriate.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your company team works remotely and you want to simplify team meetings, Google Workspace Essentials will do just that.

Google Workspace Essentials is not suited or rather not necessary for really small in-office teams. However, in general, it solves all issues that Microsoft Office can solve, and I would highly recommend it as it is easy to learn.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

We used it consistently for 12 years, but recent price increase and service decreases mean we will no longer be using it and I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone anymore. Two or three years ago, my review would have been glowing, but, in my opinion, the product and price have gone down significantly since then.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe this set of tools can match the needs of a great range of companies, regardless of their size and industry. The biggest win for our company was having in one place the following combination of tools: email + calendar + meet. That meant that the person that schedules a meeting could use the company emails taken directly from the mailbox, add the meeting in their calendars, and automatically have a "meet" link added to the invite. Then, everyone logs into the meeting using their email credentials. This made the communicating process during pandemic way smoother.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suitable for starters and startups with the easy to setup and easy to manage.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is easy to deploy and has several plan alternatives that can adapt to specific company needs. Very intuitive to use and is ideal for companies that need a lot of document sharing.