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Creating Departments and Teams

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Explore team management tools and key Hubnity features.

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Updated Jun 20266 min read
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Organize members into departments and teams for scoped reporting, manager access, and approval workflows.

Departments vs teams

Departments are top-level groups (Engineering, Sales, Operations). Teams are sub-groups within departments (Frontend, Backend).

A member can belong to one department and multiple teams. Team membership controls manager visibility.

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Create a department and team

Departments and teams are managed from People → Teams.

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  1. 1

    Go to People → Teams → New department

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  2. 2

    Enter department name and assign a department head (Manager role minimum)

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  3. 3

    Click Create, then Add team within the department

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  4. 4

    Name the team and add members

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  5. 5

    Assign a team manager for approval workflows

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Manager scope

Managers see reports, timesheets, and activity only for members in their managed teams.

A Manager assigned at the department level sees all teams within that department.

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Reporting by team

Filter any report by department or team from the report filter bar.

Scheduled reports can be scoped to a specific team for automated manager delivery.

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Moving members between teams

Drag members between teams on People → Teams or edit from the member profile → Teams tab.

Historical time entries retain the team assignment at the time of tracking for accurate past reports.

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