Teams shipped in 2017 as a Slack response and became the operating room of most businesses we support: chat, meetings, calling, files, all of it.
Nine years on, the honest critique is sprawl. Unmanaged, every project spawns a team, every team sprawls files, and nobody can find anything. Structure and lifecycle policies aren't optional at scale.
Verdict: indispensable, and best run with deliberate governance from day one.
Reviewed from live fleet experience · published June 2026 · we earn a fair margin on some products we supply; reviews are not sponsored.
