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Crew vs Microsoft Teams
March 12, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
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Crew is a communications app that keeps everyone on the same page for everything work-related.
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Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. Supports video meetings with up to 1,000 participants.
Crew and Microsoft Teams are, in essence, two variations of the same fundamental concept: getting humans to communicate in a structured yet inevitably chaotic manner. Both allow for messaging, file sharing and the delightful experience of being bombarded with notifications that you fully intend to respond to but will absolutely forget about. They work on various devices, integrate with other apps and generally aim to make workplace conversations more efficient—though whether they succeed depends entirely on the humans using them.
Crew, born in 2015 in the United States, takes a distinctly blue-collar approach, focusing on frontline workers who have better things to do than attend hour-long meetings about synergy. It simplifies scheduling, task assignments and team updates for people who actually move around during their workday. Unlike Microsoft Teams, it doesn’t concern itself too much with document collaboration or the precise alignment of PowerPoint slides—it just wants shift workers to know when to show up and what to do when they get there.
Microsoft Teams, introduced in 2017 (also in the U.S., because apparently, that’s where workplace chat apps come from), is what happens when you give an office full of engineers unlimited access to Microsoft 365 and the misguided belief that all problems can be solved with more features. It seamlessly integrates with Outlook, SharePoint and the entire weight of corporate bureaucracy, ensuring that no message is ever lost—just buried beneath a mountain of other equally urgent messages. It also boasts video conferencing and compliance features so robust that even the most paranoid IT departments nod approvingly before immediately demanding even more security.
See also: Top 10 Team Messaging platforms
Crew, born in 2015 in the United States, takes a distinctly blue-collar approach, focusing on frontline workers who have better things to do than attend hour-long meetings about synergy. It simplifies scheduling, task assignments and team updates for people who actually move around during their workday. Unlike Microsoft Teams, it doesn’t concern itself too much with document collaboration or the precise alignment of PowerPoint slides—it just wants shift workers to know when to show up and what to do when they get there.
Microsoft Teams, introduced in 2017 (also in the U.S., because apparently, that’s where workplace chat apps come from), is what happens when you give an office full of engineers unlimited access to Microsoft 365 and the misguided belief that all problems can be solved with more features. It seamlessly integrates with Outlook, SharePoint and the entire weight of corporate bureaucracy, ensuring that no message is ever lost—just buried beneath a mountain of other equally urgent messages. It also boasts video conferencing and compliance features so robust that even the most paranoid IT departments nod approvingly before immediately demanding even more security.
See also: Top 10 Team Messaging platforms
