Hey friends! I’m Tasia and this video is all about Google Workspace.
Google is known for periodically and strategically rebranding. So, what is Google Workspace? Essentially, it’s G Suite, rebranded. Here’s what that means for you.
G Suite launched in 2016, but Google already saw a need to rebrand it in 2020. As more and more of us are working from home, Google wanted to ensure G Suite was looked at as your new all-encompassing workspace - hence the name, Google Workspace. Now all of these updates are rolling out slowly to users over the next few weeks, so don’t worry if you don’t have them yet. You'll get them.
So obviously, the first thing you’ll notice with Google Workspace is that rebrand. Your icons have a new cohesive look to them.
Gmail, GCal, Drive, Docs and Meet all have been rebranded, and feature the four same colors - blue, red, yellow and green. This is to act as a visual cue that each of these apps work hand in hand together.
But that’s just scratching the surface of Workspace. So, as you may know G Suite was already an integration of your suite of Google apps, all working together. But, under Workspace, Google is taking your user experience to the next level.
Google is hoping to streamline your workflow further, by adding all the communication apps under the Gmail umbrella. Essentially, this enables you to get more done from your Gmail window, rather than opening multiple tabs. So, here’s some examples.
There are some changes to your chat window in Gmail. You can now create a Google Doc right from your chat window in Gmail, and then share it with your team right from this same window too. This is a huge collaboration update.
But updates can be found in your docs, sheets and slides too. You can preview links now that open up in a little popout, so you don’t have to leave the tab you’re on in order to view the link. There will also be a picture in picture Meet functionality in docs, sheets, slides. So, you can have a Meet while working on a doc, sheet or slide, which is extremely handy for real-time collaborations with the team. And lastly, you can @ mention someone directly in the doc to quickly assign tasks to a teammate without interrupting your workflow.
So obviously, I’m using mostly Google sources for the visuals to this video, and that’s because, like I said, not all these features are rolled out for everybody just yet. But here’s something to keep in mind. If you have a free Google account, you’ll also have the rebranded logos, but you aren’t going to have these collab features - at least not yet - as Google Workspace is a rebrand of G Suite - a paid Google service.
So now I’m curious. Do you have any new features of Google Workspace yet? What’s your favorite feature? Let everyone know in the comments below. As always, thank you guys so much for watching, and if you liked this video, I want to know so give it a like, a share or leave that comment below. You can click right about here to subscribe to my channel and up here and here for more Google content. See ya next time!