Management forced it on us, so we use it (as little as we can get away with, but that's mostly because nobody here seems much point in either Teams, or Slack, or something like that).
As much as we do use it, though, it seems to work quite well. Video conferencing actually seems more reliable than Skype for Business / Lync / whatever it is today.
We use it daily (around 200 people) and have replaced several slack licenses and Skype for Business. We figured it was a good way to unify the organisation under one platform that was already paid for with our 365 license. Not everyone is happy losing Slack, but overall, I've found it to be a massive improvement over Skype for Business, particularly its user friendliness across different platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux). Its been pretty solid in terms of conference calls, group creation and project organisation (conversations, file-sharing, etc)
We tried it at work, I wanted to like it but it was often slow, some features only sort of work due to the way they are integrated with office 365 and lastly, too much conversation emphasis. Now, at our workplace, for dev related items, basically 'I'm the guy'. I have been in IT for ~ 30 years and try to keep up on most areas. That being said, I have to say I really don't find the conversation thread communication style all that helpful on technical projects. So, teams, slack etc don't seem as handy to me as perhaps others find them. Getting back to teams, one of the primary failings was that the schedule and tasks integration looks ok on the surface, but once you try to use it you quickly run into serious roadblocks. Can't combine project schedules into a global view. Navigation of multiple lanes is tedious as every lane scrolls independantly and the scroll bars helpfully disappear on you etc etc. I filed numerous helpful suggestions but never saw much progress on things that seemed basic requirements. In the end we have put it aside and are using other tools now. Maybe your mileage will be better though.
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