# Inviting people

Workspace admins invite people from **Settings → Invite Users**. Copy the invitation link and send it. The invitee opens it, creates an account or signs in, and verifies their email. Then they show up under **Pending Approval** in **Settings → Manage Users**, and an admin approves them.

Approval is where the workspace key is handed over: the admin's device encrypts a copy of the key for the new member, so only then can their devices read the content. The technical details around end-to-end-encryption are in the [security white paper](https://thymer.com/whitepaper).

## Joining a team

Use the link your team sent you. Signing up on your own instead creates a separate account of your own, outside the team's. If you are still pending after signing up, ask an admin to approve you.

## People outside the company

Contractors and clients join the same way. Since everyone in a workspace sees everything in it, give an outside collaborator a workspace made for that collaboration, keeping other company information in other workspaces in the company account.