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Our new cake shop has 13 staff, including our boss (1 boss, 1 manager, 2 assistant managers, 2 bakers, 1 cook, 2 senior shop assistants, 4 shop assistants)

In my diary, I have written this:

The shop manager, nickname, is a nice person, he works with a team of 12 people to make the shop function well and delight the customers with delicious cakes.

I am thinking to erase the three works, "a team of" from the sentence. Originally, I thought the use of the three words could make a strong feeling that we worked together happily. Should I leave it alone or the meaning will change if I erase the three words from the sentence?

The shop manager, nickname, is a nice person, he works with 12 people to make the shop function well and delight the customers with delicious cakes.

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    team "1. a group of people organized to work together". There should be some beneficial reason for it, but there is no requirement that everyone is happy. But "happy" people tend to work together, while "unhappy" people don't. So using team in your example depends on how important the "happiness" is in context.
    – user3169
    Commented Oct 31, 2016 at 20:43

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There's not a huge difference between:

he works with 12 people

and

he works with a team of 12 people

Adding "a team of" would imply at least a degree of working together that omitting it would not. In particular, if he worked with these 12 people independently and they didn't work with each other than adding "team of" would be misleading.

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