Emil
Question
Our organisation runs on Teams and someone suggested giving mentees guest accounts so everything happens in one place. It would certainly be tidier for us. Is there a reason not to?
Discussion 05.4
Collaborative Tools: Slack and Microsoft Teams
How to streamline team communication and collaboration.
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Mentoring team
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Tidier for you is the warning sign in that sentence. Slack and Teams are staff tools. They assume everyone is inside one organisation, works to the same rhythm and has a reason to keep the app open. A mentee has none of that.
What you would be asking her to do is create an account tied to your organisation, install another app, learn a new interface, and receive notifications from a workspace where your colleagues are also talking. The cost lands on the person with the least time and the oldest phone.
Guest access has its own edges as well. What a guest can see is a configuration decision, and it is easy to get wrong in a way nobody notices until a guest reads a channel they should not have.
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