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# Departments

> Group your organisation by team, independent of location

A department is a team within your company — Engineering, Finance, Sales. Unlike locations, departments aren't tied to a physical place: your Engineering department might have people at three different offices, all in the same department.

Devices, assets, and employees can each be assigned a department, the same way they can be assigned a location — the two are independent, and most things in the product can be filtered or scoped by either one.

## What departments are used for

* **Scoping policies** — target "all devices in Finance" regardless of which office they're in
* **Scoping roles** — limit an IT Admin's access to just their own department
* **Filtering and reporting**
* **Grouping in bulk import** — the Department column in an import file matches against your existing department names (see [Bulk Import](/features/bulk-import))

## Adding a department

Under **Organisation → Locations**, switch to the **Departments** tab, and click **Add department**. A department only needs a name — there's no address or timezone the way locations have, since a department isn't a physical place.

## Editing or removing a department

Each department has an overflow menu (⋮) with **Edit** and **Delete**, same as locations. Renaming updates the name everywhere it's referenced. If a department still has devices, assets, or employees assigned to it, reassign them first before deleting.

## Related

* [Locations](/organisation/locations) — the other way to group your organisation, independent of team
* [Employees](/organisation/employees) - track the people you assign devices and assets to
* [Bulk Import](/features/bulk-import) — department names in an import file must exactly match an existing department here