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# Managing Departments

You can manage and assign workers to departments in your Organization.

## Managing Organization Details

To manage your Organization details, go to **My Organization**, edit the details you want to modify and save the form

## Distinguishing Departments and Teams

Where as a department represents the division of your organization a worker belongs to, teams are more cross functional and give you the flexibility to provide granular precision of what a specific worker can and cannot do on the platform.

## Managing Departments

### Assigning Workers to a department

To manage your organization's departments:

* Go to **My Organization**
* Select the department by clicking **Edit Item**
* In the **Add users to this department** field, move the users you want to assign from this department from left to right
* Click Save on the popup form
* Confirm clicking Save on the Organization Form.

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### Removing Workers from a department

To manage your organization's departments:

* Go to **My Organization**
* Select the department by clicking **Edit Item**
* In the **Add users to this department** field, move the users you want to remove from this department from right to left
* Click Save on the popup form
* Confirm clicking Save on the Organization Form.

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### Creating a new department

To create a new department

* Go to **My Organization**
* Click on the Departments Button
* In the pop up that appears,
  * Provide the department name
  * In the **Add users to this department** field, move the users you want to assign from this department from left to right
* Click Save on the popup form
* Confirm clicking Save on the Organization Form.

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