You work for a global organization that has offices in the United States and the...

Google Workspace allows organizations to control the geographic location of their data for compliance and regulatory reasons, often referred to as "data regions" or "data locality." To ensure user data is located in the same region as their physical office, especially for compliance with regulations like those in the EU, you need to set a data region policy for the respective organizational units.

Here's why the other options are incorrect:

A. Set the OU data location to No preference. "No preference" means Google can store the data wherever it deems appropriate, which goes against the requirement of ensuring data is located in a specific region (e.g., EU for EU users, US for US users).

B. Turn on advanced settings and select Enable features that may process data across multiple regions. This option would allow data to be processed across multiple regions, which directly contradicts the company regulation that requires data to be located in the same region as their physical office.

C. Turn on advanced settings and select Disable features that may process data across multiple regions. While this might seem related to controlling data flow, the primary mechanism for specifying data residency for OUs is through data region policies, not simply disabling cross-region processing features. Disabling such features might limit functionality without directly setting the data storage region.

References from Google Workspace Administrator:

Choose a data region for your data: Google Workspace provides options for administrators to choose a data region for covered Google Workspace services, which applies to primary customer data at rest. This can be set at the organizational unit (OU) level.