# Good use cases for groups (to better understand groups vs categories)

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**Created:** [Maio 17, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/good-use-cases-for-groups-to-better-understand-groups-vs-categories/62875 "2017-05-17T13:39:16Z")\
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> [@tophee](#):
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> what does this look like in practice? And in cases where similar results can be achieved with both groups and categories, how did you decide which one to use?

Category permissions are the most common use case for groups that I’ve seen. On one of my sites (an internal company forum), we use two groups for category permissions. The remaining groups are used simply to “group” users. Without going into to much detail, we have two types of employees - main office “corporate” employees, and remote seasonal employees. All “corporate” employees are grouped by their department (HR, IT, Accounting, etc.) so the remote seasonal employees can more easily identify them.

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