This recipe described one way of using the team to elevate a user's privileges. This is a common practice when users often require greater privileges temporarily. Creating a team with elevated privileges and adding and removing users from that team is an easy way to manage temporary privileges.

Another way of leveraging the power of teams is for ownership. When a record privilege is set at the user level (as per the screenshot), the record can be the owner by a user or a team. When owned by a team, all users that are part of that team will have the same privileges to the record:

The same access applies when a record is owned at a Business Unit level that the user does not have access to. The record becomes available when the user becomes a member of a team in that Business Unit.