How to Use Claude at Work: A Practical Guide for New Users (2026) Your organisation has just given you access to Claude. Maybe it arrived via a company-wide rollout, a new seat in a Team plan, or IT quietly sent around a login. Either way, you've got a tab open and you're not quite sure what to do with it beyond "ask it things." This guide covers what actually matters for day-to-day workplace use in 2026: how to get it talking to your CRM, how to turn it into a presentation, how to make sense of a large dataset, and how to do all of this without accidentally exposing client data or wasting half your afternoon on a hallucinated statistic. No fluff. No "Claude will transform your workflow forever." Just what it does well, what it doesn't, and how to get started on the things most office users actually need. What you're working with Claude is a large language model made by Anthropic. In practical terms, it reads text (and files, and images) you give it, and responds.…