Workspace administration

Roles and permissions

What owners, admins, members and guests can do, and the rules for changing roles.

The four roles

Each role can do everything the roles below it can.

Owner: manages the workspace, its plan and billing, and everything an admin can do. A workspace always has at least one owner.
Admin: invites and removes people, sets roles, changes workspace settings, decides moderation reports and sees usage.
Member: joins, starts and schedules meetings, makes calls, chats and adds contacts.
Guest: joins the meetings and chats they are invited to.

What each role can do
Action	Owner	Admin	Member	Guest
Join meetings and chat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Start instant meetings and calls	Yes	Yes	If allowed¹	No
Schedule meetings	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Host controls in any meeting	Yes	Yes	Own meetings	No
Invite people to the workspace	Yes	Yes	As guests, if allowed²	No
See the invite link	Yes	Yes	No	No
Add contacts	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Change roles and remove people	Yes	Yes, except owners	No	No
Workspace settings, usage, moderation	Yes	Yes	No	No
Delete anyone's chat message	Yes	Yes	No	No
Buy or change the plan	Yes	View only	No	No
Make or remove owners	Yes	No	No	No

¹ When Anyone can start a meeting is on (the default). ² When Members can invite guests is on (the default).

Owners and admins change roles from Workspace settings → Members.
Only owners can make, change or remove owners.
Nobody can change their own role.
The last owner can't be demoted, removed or leave: "Make someone else an owner first."
Role changes apply at once, including host rights in a call that is in progress.

In a meeting, the organizer and the workspace's owners and admins are hosts. See Host controls.