assign only certain employees to a premium license

[Phil_Seeman]

Hi @anon37529294,

Ultimately you’ll want to discuss this with Asana Sales as they need to be involved in the configuration and movement of things, but overall I think what would work for you is to create a Free organization on your email domain, then create a Premium Team or Division (there’s really no disadvantage to making it a Division even if it only has one Team in it) for yourself and your Team, and another separate Premium Team or Division for the other group.

You can read more about this approach here:

How to Bar the Door (or, How to keep everyone with your company email domain from joining your Asana Organization)

Most people set up their Asana implementation as an Organization (as opposed to a Workspace), and for good reason - there are many benefits to an Organization over a Workspace. One property of an Organization is that anyone who has an email address based on the email domain of the Organization can join that Organization without asking for or obtaining any sort of approval. In some cases this can be viewed as a good thing in terms of convenience and ease of onboarding. However, it’s important t…

and you can read more about Divisions in general here:

What I learned about divisions

Workspace, organization, division, we’ve all heard about it! But “division” is not the easiest one to understand [Update June 2023, thanks @lpb ] A new Guide article from Asana giving Divisions basic info in a clear way: And here is a summary of everything I have discovered over time on the subject! As an introduction, here is a quote from my friend @LEGGO, which is both a good summary and a good teaser for the rest of the post: “a division is like a collection …