What is Google Workspace?

Google Workspace is Google’s cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, built around business email, shared documents, calendars, meetings, chat, file storage, forms, notes, and lightweight site building. It sits in the office suite category, but it is closer to a connected work platform than a simple bundle of apps: teams use it to replace fragmented stacks for email, document creation, scheduling, messaging, and collaborative file work. Google positions it as the better way to work for businesses that want premium versions of Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Chat, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Keep, Vids, NotebookLM, and AppSheet in one subscription.

The product grew out of Gmail for Your Domain and Google Apps, then evolved into G Suite before rebranding to Google Workspace as Google pushed the suite toward a more integrated cloud collaboration experience. That evolution matters: Workspace is no longer just hosted email with a few extras, but a broad work layer with shared storage, real-time coauthoring, meetings, AI help, admin controls, and migration tools for teams that want one environment for daily operations.