# Workspaces and Collaboration


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A **workspace** defines how teams work together in Lookout. It is the container for everything a team builds — audiences, activations, chats, dashboards, warehouse connections, and Context Hub notes — and the unit that decides who can see and change what.

Each workspace has a short, URL-friendly name (slug) that appears in every link. All resources live inside exactly one workspace, and the workspace decides which warehouses, RudderStack account, and repositories the team's chats can reach. A single person can belong to several workspaces and switch between them by navigating to a different workspace URL.

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Behind the scenes, a sign-in identifies a user, not a particular workspace. 

Lookout checks your membership of a workspace whenever you open it — so you only ever see workspaces you have been added to, and switching teams never requires signing in again.
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## In this section

| Guide | <div style="width: 350px;">Description</div> |
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| [Roles and Permissions]({{< ref "lookout/workspaces/roles.md" >}}) | Learn what owners, admins, members, and guests can do |
| [Invite Teammates]({{< ref "lookout/workspaces/inviting-teammates.md" >}}) | Add people to a workspace by email |