Microsoft Viva Insights Community

New Viva Insights Community

Background The goal of this new community is to allow all Viva Insights users and community visitors to connect, learn and discuss with Viva Insights experts and peers. The community is catered to thr...

Viva Insights September 2021 feature updates

The Microsoft Viva Insights team would like to present our feature updates for September 2021. (You can see past blog articles here). This month’s update describes the following features: Query design...

Microsoft's Approach to Hybrid Work. A Guide for Business Leaders - Part 3

Embracing hybrid work will enable your organization to meet new employee and customer expectations, attract and retain talent, and gain competitive advantage. Building on our learnings, we’ve created ...

Embracing the Opportunity Microsoft's Approach to Hybrid Work A Guide for Business Leaders - Part 2

At Microsoft, we’ve embraced flexibility as a principle to give our more than 160,000 employees around the world greater choice in when, where, and how they work. Our flexible work policy gives employ...

Hybrid Work: A Guide for Business Leaders - Part 1

Over a year into the pandemic, digital adoption curves aren’t slowing down, they’re accelerating. And this is just the beginning. We’re at an inflection point as decisive as last year’s sudden shift t...

Introducing Headspace, a new focus mode, and quiet time settings with Microsoft Viva Insights

Starting later this month, we’re introducing new personal wellbeing experiences including a Headspace integration with Microsoft Viva Insights to empower people to balance the need to stay connected a...

Daily briefing and MyAnalytics branding updates to reflect Microsoft Viva

In the coming months, personal insights available in the flow of your work in Outlook with your daily briefing email, MyAnalytics digest email, and Insights Outlook add-in will receive updates to refl...

Microsoft Viva: Empowering every employee for the new digital age

Even before COVID-19 turned our lives upside down, a new generation of digital tools was opening up new possibilities for the future of work. What we didn’t expect was that this future would arrive al...

Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks

For many people, back-to-back video meetings are a hallmark of the pandemic era. One conversation ends, another begins, and too often there’s no chance to stretch, pour a glass of water, or just clear...

Unilever empowers employees to balance their productivity and wellbeing with Microsoft Viva

Unilever is a multinational corporation with a long history of taking its employees’ well-being very seriously. The company adopts Microsoft Viva to provide individuals, managers, and leaders with dat...

Insights from Microsoft Workplace Analytics help Lumen drive 'anything is possible' mentality

As a leading, world-class technology company, Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) recognizes that sales are the foundation of the company’s success. In this video, Meghan Wilkinson, CVP, shares how Microsoft...

Video: Global brewer uses data to simplify process and improve employee experience

As a leading global brewer, AB InBev aspires to support a culture of community among its 180,000 employees and the satisfaction of customers around the world, in tandem with its successful growth. Wat...

LinkedIn joins two powerful Microsoft platforms to nurture employee wellbeing

By pairing objective behavioral insights on how everyday work happens with employee engagement survey data, LinkedIn leaders were able to understand not only how employees were responding to a major w...

Cultural change drives decades of adaptation and efficiency at LITE-ON

LITE-ON is a highly distributed major player in the APAC manufacturing sector. While the industry tends to have a reputation for an aversion to change, LITE-ON identified key market factors as an oppo...

Case study: Rand Mutual Assurance

In 1886, gold was discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa. This had a profound impact on the region as businesses and industries thrived around the newfound resource. One such business was Rand Mutua...

Learning culture leads to change; how untapped data from everyday work fuels innovation

Like many companies aiming to remain competitive and grow, BP, one of the largest energy producers in the world, has in recent years undertaken a digital transformation. And like many leaders, those a...

Optimizing the workday to become a 'truly human organization'

What if we knew, without having to guess, how to optimize work productivity while balancing our creativity and happiness? With that knowledge, what could we be empowered to do? That’s what Microsoft p...

In Microsoft Denmark, data and inclusion are key to navigating disruption

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 continues to have a tremendous impact on people and communities around the world, challenging us to adapt to worksite and school closures, travel and gathering restrictions, an...

Lessons from China: A return to the office, but not the old way of working

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

Supporting customer and supplier relationships in uncertain times

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

The new manager 1:1: Nurturing employee resiliency during disruption and change

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

New research fuels the race to make work better

In today’s fast-moving, competitive, and highly connected world, we know there’s a direct relationship between good work and successful outcomes. Good work helps organizations achieve their goals, and...

Case study: Data-driven insights help sales managers spend more time empowering teams to succeed

Embracing Microsoft’s company-wide digital transformation mission, sales leaders in Australia harnessed behavioral analytics to quantify workplace activities, and uncovered opportunities to optimize t...

Uncovering resilience: Measuring organizational networks during crisis

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

The human side of business continuity

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

Balancing work and life under one roof

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

The rise of shorter meetings and other ways collaboration is changing with remote work

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

In China, managing people, relationships, and more meetings remotely

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

When office work shifts to remote, what will we learn?

Editor’s Note: COVID-19 has impacted people around the world, challenging us to adapt to travel restrictions, school closures, and the removal of barriers between work and life—all at once. So, what d...

Survey shows genders, generations and roles experience remote work differently

As many workplaces pass the one-year anniversary of their transition to remote work, Microsoft released its latest Work Trends Index, highlighting the impact this transition has had on employees and w...