topic Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs in Sales Hub Tools

New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

GracjanSpectage — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:44:29 GMT

New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards

Seriously disappointed with the new Sales Workspace beta. HubSpot plans to remove the two features that made this tool worth using - the dedicated Leads and Deals tabs.

These tabs let me work through deals and leads at lightning speed without the constant clicking and navigation that slows everything down. Now they've been replaced with... basic links to the same old classical views?

What's the logic here? The entire value proposition of Sales Workspace for me and my clients was speed and efficiency - letting me manage my full pipeline 4-5x faster than the traditional interface. Without those integrated tabs, this "upgrade" is basically a feature removal disguised as innovation.

Please bring back the Leads and Deals tabs. That's what made Sales Workspace special. This beta feels like you solved a problem nobody had while creating problems nobody wanted.

Anyone else frustrated by this change?

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

RubenBurdin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:57:05 GMT

Hi @GracjanSpectage I get where you’re coming from.

The dedicated Leads and Deals tabs were the whole point of Sales Workspace quick pipeline control without hopping back and forth. Removing them does feel like a step backward in terms of efficiency.

HubSpot has been experimenting a lot with unified navigation, but sometimes simplification strips away the tools power users depend on. If speed was the main value propp, replacing tabs with links really just recreates the old CRM view, which defeats the purpose.

I’d encourage you to add this feedback directly in the Ideas Forum too, since HubSpot’s product team tends to monitor those closely. Here’s the link:

(https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/idb-p/HubSpot_Ideas?utm_source=chatgpt.com )

The more voices there, the higher the chance they’ll prioritize bringing the tabs back.

In the meantime, you might try creating saved views and pinning them, but I know it’s not the same. The old tab setup was faster for anyone processing a queue of leads or deals in one sitting

Hope this helps. Would you like me to share a quick workaround I’ve seen some teams using to partly replicate those tabs?

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

BérangèreL — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:57:08 GMT

Hi @GracjanSpectage and thank you so much for taking the time to share your honest feedback about the new Sales Workspace beta on the HubSpot Community.

We understand how important the dedicated Leads and Deals tabs are for your workflow and day-to-day productivity, and I’m sorry to hear that this change has made things harder for you and your clients.

Your feedback on speed, efficiency, and the unique value the integrated tabs provided is genuinely appreciated.

Changes like these can be frustrating, especially when well-loved features are retired or changed.

Please know that we regularly pass on feedback from our users, and voices like yours are vital in helping our product teams understand the real impact of these updates.

You should also have an option to share your feedback in-app, or like @RubenBurdin mentioned, on the Ideas' Forum, here is a similar Idea that you can upvote and where you can share your use case:
"Bring back and improve the Lead Pipeline in Sales Workspace".

Your experience matters to us, and we’re here to support you through any platform updates, as well as advocate for your needs internally. I've made sure to share your feedback internally.

If you have more thoughts or examples of how you used these tabs, please feel free to share them on the Idea's forum (link above), your input can help shape future improvements.

Thank you again for being part of our community and for helping us make HubSpot better!

Have a great day!
Bérangère

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

GracjanSpectage — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:12:18 GMT

Hi, I submitted my feedback from multiple portal I'm an admin in.
I hope a toggle would be somewhere to re-enable thos tabs back in Sales Workspace.

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

BérangèreL — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:26:02 GMT

Hi @GracjanSpectage and thanks so much to have submitted your idea on the Ideas Forum, as suggested by @RubenBurdin!

When you have a moment, could you please share the link to your Idea here?

We’d love to support it by adding our upvotes as well ❤️

Have a lovely day!
Bérangère

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

dmccarthy83 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:47:10 GMT

Agree - this beta is a step backwards.

Without the ability to see prospects and deals in the sales workspace, the function loses much of its value. The key remaining benefit is the improved tasks view.

Not getting much out of the rest of the space.

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

LRivera43 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:35:21 GMT

Agree as well, the Prospects tab in the Sales Workspace was definitely heading in the right direction, centralizing the Companies and Leads information in one place, with customizable views/counts all in one place. We have created views by Lead Status and by Ideal Client Profile which give our AEs a complete view of their book of business by different cuts all in one place. What would have been an upgrade was including the same functionality from the CRM index views into the Companies and Leads views so that you could perform bulk actions and "work" directly from there creating tasks, etc. Please consider moving back in the direction you were with a dedicated tab for Prospects and Deals that have CRM Index capability + the left handside menu to switch/organize views.

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

THarding2 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:19:48 GMT

Huge agree. This is a MAJOR step backwards. The most frustrating this is that our reps were loving the workspace, and we acquired a company whose reps were also loving the workspace. We decided to migrate/merge both teams into a new unified instance ---> but since the instance was created after Aug 2025, we were automatically enrolled in the new (trash) Sales Workspaces. All of the reps on both sides were upset. It's redundant with the existing object pages. They loved prospecting and having everything preset for their leads/deals/etc. Now they all have to make their own views just to see what companies are theirs. It's clearly an engineering austerity move on Hubspot's part so that they don't have to manage two new pages, because I can't imagine anybody on the product side thinks it looks or functions better.

Bummed that we locked in this new three year contract with them before knowing that the new workspace was mandatory, because we would have flat out started looking for a new CRM. No hyperbole, it's embarrassing.

Re: New Sales Workspace Beta: A Major Step Backwards Deals/Lead tabs

STierney — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:26:27 GMT

Hey @THarding2 - thank you for providing this feedback!

In an effort to streamline this conversation and ensure everyone's experiences and context are escalated to our Product Team directly, we do ask that you provide this feedback directly n this Ideas Forum:

https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Bring-back-and-improve-the-Lead-Pipeline-in-Sales-Workspace/idi-p/1194174

It will continue to build a case for why it's so important that our customers have access to a workspace that was working well for them prior to any changes.

Shane, Senior Community Moderator