Microsoft has announced ‘Teams Essentials’ designed specifically for small businesses, which will cost $4 per user per month.
Teams Essentials gives small businesses a professional and affordable meetings solution to support collaboration, connection, and productivity in a hybrid work environment, Microsoft said in a statement.
Priced at $4 per user per month, Microsoft claims Teams Essentials is the “most affordable all-in-one solution” available in the current market. It offers unlimited one-on-one and group video calls for up to 30 hours. Users can host up to 300 people at once. By comparison, the free Teams plan has a 60-minute time limit for meetings. It also only allows a maximum of 100 participants.
“We know how difficult the past 20 months have been for small businesses. They’ve had to demonstrate extreme flexibility to adapt, often with limited access to tools and technology,” said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Modern Work at Microsoft.
“Teams Essentials is built specifically to meet the unique needs of small businesses, enabling them to thrive in this new era of work,” Spataro added.
According to Microsoft, Teams Essentials provides expansive limits and features for hosting professional meetings and collaborating in one place:
- Unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours
- Meetings with up to 300 people
- 10 GB of cloud storage per user
Teams Essentials also includes existing and new capabilities available in the free version of Teams to meet the needs of small businesses:
- Simple, easy invitations require only an email address. Users are not required to sign up, sign in or install Teams to participate in a meeting.
- In addition to Outlook Calendar integration, new Google Calendar integration makes it easy to schedule meetings in Microsoft Teams. *Coming soon
- Professional meeting tools and capabilities like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds, Together mode, live closed captions and live reactions.
- Never lose context or continuity with always-available chats in Microsoft Teams.
- Quickly start a group project and host meetings with anyone, assign tasks to teammates, and create polls to receive feedback quickly all in one hub with the new small-business group chat template (Coming soon to desktop and web).
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