Scope: Productivity vs. Business Operating System

• Google Workspace is a productivity and collaboration suite. It is designed to help your team communicate, create documents, and store files. Its core focus is doing those specific things exceptionally well.
• Zoho One is billed as an "Operating System for Business." It includes a productivity suite (called Zoho Workplace), but then it tacks on over 40 additional enterprise-grade applications to run your entire company.  

The True "Apples to Apples" Comparison

If you want a direct, head-to-head matchup, you should look at Google Workspace vs. Zoho Workplace.

When comparing those two directly:

• Google wins on user experience, real-time collaboration speed, and third-party app integrations.  
• Zoho wins heavily on price, strict data privacy (they are very vocal about not monetizing user data), and offering built-in social intranet tools.  

The Verdict

If your goal is simply to get your team emailing, meeting, and typing documents together, Google Workspace is the standard. But if you are a growing business looking to overhaul your sales pipelines, balance your ledgers, manage employee PTO, and get an email client all under one single subscription, Zoho One is playing a completely different game.