March 22, 2022
Enable discovery and sharing of Spaces in Google Chat
What’s changing
Who’s impacted
Why it’s important
- Sharing knowledge widely with others, including team discussions, how-to guides and mentoring opportunities.
- Organizational and policy updates.
- Situations where you need to quickly gather interested folks or those with relevant expertise, for example to investigate an outage.
- Cultural and social topics of interest, like reading, sports, or cooking.
Additional details
Getting started
- Admins: There are currently no admin controls for this feature.
- End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating spaces with different access levels.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 22, 2022.
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers
Resources
- Google Help: Create spaces with different access levels
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Optimize Chat spaces for your organization
- Google Help: About spaces and group conversations
- Google Workspace Updates Blog: Define and manage Chat Spaces, space descriptions, and guidelines with a new “manager” role
- Cloud Blog: Bridging the hybrid work gaps with Google Workspace