Echoing @Mike - Dreamsuite Consulting about the best practices structure! Absolutely.
Make sure different types of boards are setup consistently and are recognizable in way of naming conventions perhaps, labels, etc. before migrating; I'm certainly also thinking board settings, color codes absolutely, collections if those were available... Good points there!
I'd personally appoint one main person with (thinking through and preparing) this task and have every dept. add them to their current workspace so this individual can do the work with full control and oversight.
I'm guessing that's maybe you, so make sure you have all the access. 22 people isn't massive, but if you're gonna ask every department to move over their own boards, that might turn into a mess.
About accessing each others boards, that depends. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Private when you say you want everyone to access each others' boards. Do you mean Public, as in web visible? What about those personal workspace boards people had?
Admins of the new Premium space will be able to see all boards, but regular members won't if those boards are set to Private. Unless they have been added to the board.
If you mean "company members and guests only" then there's a setting that allows only members from the email domains you set. So no one can add people with a Gmail to a board or something.
So another tip is to carefully look into space and board settings as well. If you're coming from Free you're going to have a lot more granularity at hand, and to handle.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if things go awry, there's always the possibility of copying boards, and if you need activity and comments to come along: create a new board in the new space and copy lists over. But you really should check this.
Maybe, if this feels daunting, do some tests first.The new space will have little to no limitations and there's definite freedom in trying out things, setting up collections, seeing what-happens-if...
I don't know the company setup, what kind of boards you have, or how people handled these. But I wouldn't jump into something that's maybe mission critical without a good preparatory analysis. That's not to scare you (Trello is straightforward enough) but I'm just offering the safest possible advice.
And finally, it could be that maybe not every co-worker needs to be in the new space. Sometimes it makes sense to add them to individual boards only, where if necessary they can still be an admin of that board. Remember that space admins have plenty access to space settings and even members can see stuff like Billing (though they can't change it) because there is no superstructure above the space, like a company-level admin in other software might have.
Of course, always add more than one admin from the start. If you're coming from Free or maybe Standard where these hierarchies may not exist you may not realise this. Having only one admin to a Premium company space is always a risk. People leave, get ill, go on holiday, or lock themselves out.
And one question: since you have the new Premium space, you kow you do get full support now?; it might be worth putting that to use before and during this migration--you're now a paying customer.
Just a few things I can think of rn, hope it helps and good moving!
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