Hub SitesHub sites are Modern Sites that provide a way to create a group of sites that have common navigation and style. According to Microsoft, they are the “connective tissue” you use when organizing families of team sites and communication sites together. Hub sites are created from Communication sites and the provide a flexible mechanism for building out intranet sites where business units may move in the organizational structure.
As a starting point in your hub planning, think about hub sites for key functions that your users need to get work done—for example: HR, Finance, Communications or Public Relations, Legal, and IT. These functions may be represented in different organizational departments or business units in large organizations or combined into the role of a few people in smaller organizations.
Let’s take HR as an example. HR often encompasses the following sub-functions:
•Benefits
•Compensation
•Recruiting
•Performance Management
•Professional Development
•HR Management
In the classic intranet model, you would have created an HR site and used subsites to support each HR function. In the new flat world of modern SharePoint sites, the HR family is connected using the HR hub.
The key benefit provided by SharePoint hub sites; they model relationships as links, rather than hierarchy or ownership, so that you can adapt to the changes in the way you work in a dynamic, changing world.