Group is a workplace using which a group of people can communicate, collaborate and share information more efficiently and effectively. It allows a distributed group of people to work on common activities. The groups module in Zoho Business provides:
- Tasks Scheduler to create, assign and track tasks for the group/team.
- Calendar to schedule and manage teams' appointments, meetings and project deadlines.
- Notes to create notes and organize them for suggestions, tips and reminders for the team.
- Links to bookmark and manage favorite website URLs for the team.
There are certain value propositions of this feature that include:
- Share and view free/busy time to check the availability of the invitees when scheduling meetings
- Create Tasks and assign them to group members
- Set email and/or pop up reminders to for your group tasks and events
- Provide access to data to all the group members without explicit sharing to individual members
This Feature is very useful for activities that require a team effort. You can create a group with with your team members to share documents, calendar events, tasks and notes. This helps reduce the distance between the team members working together.