A work team is a subset of the users who belong to a single login group. Work teams are used only in the context of the topics feature, and are intended to structure the level of access that different users have to topics.
When adding or editing a topic, users can make the topic visible to a work team or teams. Users can either specify a single work team for a topic or zero, one, or more work teams (as defined by the topic workflow configuration that is in use). Only members of the specified work team(s) can see or act on the topic, and then only in the ways permitted by their assigned work team permissions. (A topic that is not made visible to any work team can only be viewed and acted on by its creator. For work on these topics, work team permissions are not needed.)
Note: When assigning work team permissions, note that only users with the View Topics user permission can access the Topics page and work with associated topics on the Signal Review page. Work team permissions grant different levels of access to the topics on those pages, but not to the topics feature itself.
You can define multiple work teams within the same login group. For example, different work teams can represent various therapeutic areas. A user can be a member of one, several, or none of the login group's work teams.
Users with the Administer Users user permission can add and delete work teams, and edit work teams to specify members and assign work team permissions to them. (One of the work team permissions, Administer Work Team, can be used to give designated members editing access only to a work team.)