Dropbox has made collaboration on its cloud storage service easier with the introduction of a feature that allows groups to share files through a centralised folder. Now Dropbox is making a clear distinction between a work and personal account and will let users toggle between the two, as opposed to signing in and out of separate accounts tied to different email addresses. If files are confidential, you can keep them only within your team, but other files will be able to be freely shared with anyone using Dropbox. Each team automatically gets access to the files in a folder, so there’s no need to set up permissions every time.

Dropbox today provided a stepping stone in functionality for those who use the tool at work but haven’t yet upgraded to Dropbox for Business.

Of Dropbox’s 400 million users, it estimates that 60 per cent of these use Dropbox at work, claiming this equates to Dropbox being present in 8 million businesses. The new team feature looks to do away with these annoyances by providing Dropbox teams with one centralized place for all their share files and folders.

Instead of making these users carry on with workarounds to improve sharing files at work, Dropbox decided to give them a freebie upgrade instead, saying they are not in a position to use the For Business version of the tool just yet.

Dropbox is about to become a lot more useful for teams.

Now, if you’re looking for this feature and can’t find it yet, don’t worry – Dropbox is rolling it out over the next week. “That’s going to be a very natural progression”. Dropbox is far from creating a stand-alone chat app; its service remains more comparable to Google Drive and file sharing service Box than any other existing workplace software. Revenue rose 43% in the second quarter, according to the company, and it also has 39 million registered users and 50,000 paying customers worldwide.