For me personally, I will recommend you send out your work report in HTML so that when your collaborators need the table in Word, they can always do the copy and pasting by themselves. I'm not saying this workflow is the perfect solution but in my case, it solves the problem and for you as a data scientist/statistician, the only extra thing you need to do is to educate your team about this. In most cases, you don't need to open up Word and copy the tables by yourself.
At my workplace, after I show them the benefit of using HTML (like a clickable table of contents, some dynamic plots and now this kind of copiable tables), most of people have already brought in this workflow. I use PDF when the report is for external people where they want a "formal" and stable document.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/kableExtra/vignettes/kableExtra_and_word.html

The programmers of Microsoft Word did an amazing job on transforming HTML to XML and then to Word. We should take advantage of that.