Team Hides ‘Do the Work’ Tab to Make Room for Workspace Planning
By milliondollarrenter1 min read
The team built a new workspace for its calendar, its projects, and the meeting about where the calendar and projects should live.
At first, the new spaces were useful. The calendar showed the week. The project board showed what was due. Someone added a third space so the team could discuss which of the first two belonged in the main tabs.
By Tuesday, that third space needed a name. “Workspace Planning” won after “Navigation Decisions” was found to imply that decisions would be made there.
A teammate suggested adding a tab called “Do the Work.” It would open the project board directly, with the next task at the top. There was room for it if the group moved Workspace Planning into the sidebar.
The suggestion went into Workspace Planning. A meeting was scheduled to review it.
At the meeting, several people agreed that Do the Work would be useful. They also agreed that usefulness was not the only criterion for a main tab. Tabs had to reflect the team's priorities, and priority setting now occupied a significant part of the team's day. One person proposed a space for the priority-setting process. Another suggested that this space should have a visible place in the navigation so nobody forgot to use it.
They called it “Space Governance.”
The team moved Space Governance into the main tabs. To make room, it hid Do the Work. The project board was still available, they noted, through the calendar, provided the calendar space remained visible after the next review.
Someone asked whether the hidden tab could be brought back. Of course it could. The team set a date for that decision in Space Governance and marked the project board “awaiting workspace alignment.”
The work has been scheduled to reappear after the workspace review.
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**Source note:** This is satire. The office, team, tab names, meeting and vote are fictional. [Meta's November 6, 2026 announcement](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/11/introducing-spaces-customize-muse-app/) describes customizable Muse spaces that can be placed in navigation, hidden and scheduled. It does not report the office scene above.
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