In Google Workspace, what does "organization unit" enable administrators to do?

In Google Workspace, organization units (OUs) are a powerful feature that allows administrators to apply different settings and privileges to selected groups of users. This hierarchical structure enables admins to customize the experience for various departments, teams, or individuals within the organization. For instance, you might have different policies for the HR department compared to the marketing team, allowing specific applications or features to be enabled or disabled based on the needs of each unit.

This flexibility helps organizations maintain better control over their Google Workspace environment, ensuring that users have access to the tools they need for their work while enforcing specific compliance or security requirements. By structuring users into different OUs, administrators can tailor settings such as sharing permissions, security protocols, and even application access uniquely to these groups, enhancing both usability and security.

Other options describe functionalities that do not specifically leverage the benefits of organization units in the same way. For example, applying uniform settings to all users would not take advantage of the segmentation that OUs provide, nor would they enable selective access management or account for increased storage, which is uniform across users or tied to their subscription plan.