Organisational Units (OUs) allow you to structure your Google Workspace domain into a hierarchy. Navigate to Directory > Organisational Units to access this section.
For example, under your Root OU you might divide users by geographical location (Manchester, Edinburgh, Utrecht), and then create child OUs within each location for departments (Marketing, Product, Sales).
The Organisational Units screen
The screen displays a list of all Organisational Units created for your domain, along with their descriptions where provided. The total OU count is shown at the top of the table.
- The Root Organisational Unit is always listed at the top and is identified by an office building icon.
- If a child OU has further child OUs beneath it, an arrow icon is shown next to it. Select the arrow to expand and view the next level of OUs.
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The Organisational Units interface
Organisational Unit management sits in the modern Automate interface. The OU list, the creation flow and the OU detail view all use the current design, actions are available directly from the OU rather than from a separate screen, and field order across the OU screens puts the most used fields first.
Your organisational units, and their settings, are unchanged. This is a change to the interface, not to your configuration.