
Improve Employee Productivity
and Wellbeing with Microsoft Viva Insights
Work from home is the new normal today with COVID-19, so how can a business ensure employee longevity? With Microsoft Viva Insights.
We already know that Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the workflow. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced through Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Viva Insights is the latest installment. Viva Insights fosters a culture that helps people and businesses thrive with data-driven, privacy-protected insights and recommendations to improve productivity and wellbeing. In the words of Jared Spataro,
“Microsoft Viva does not treat work as a ‘place’ but looks at ways for ‘harnessing human ingenuity to connect employees in an ever-changing world.”
What Does Microsoft
Viva Insights Have to Offer You?
76% of the remote working employees in the US complained of burnout, 70% reported higher work stress, and more than half agreed to have elevated levels of anxiety. Therefore, creating a culture where people and businesses can thrive together is of utmost importance. Viva Insights inspires organizations to put employee wellbeing at the center of company culture. Microsoft Viva Insights uses Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 apps and services data and signals. Additionally, it can access data from an existing ecosystem of collaboration tools and services like Zoom, Slack, Workday, and SAP SuccessFactors.
Furthermore, Identify the hot spots in the data provided by Viva Insights. Analysis of data will help leaders identify burnout.

What Does Microsoft Why Do We Need Viva Insights?
Workers are not machines. This might seem an obvious statement, yet business technology has ignored this fact for a long time. Whether it is your email, CRM, or even a spreadsheet, IT tools are designed with an exclusive focus on productivity. They are about helping people do work as efficiently as possible.
While productivity is a good thing, most IT platforms allow you to keep working for as long as you can. However, it forgets that human beings need to stop and sleep. This is where Viva Insights comes in.
What Does Microsoft Microsoft Viva Insights Features
When you turn Viva Insights on, individual employees will notice several features which aim to enhance their wellbeing. These include:
- Focus Time allows the individual to block our focus time in their diary where they are not disturbed by alerts and notifications and cannot be invited to meetings. So they can use this for creative thinking.
- Personal Insights and Wellbeing: Viva will begin to learn about the individual and help them understand their workday better. It will use artificial intelligence to provide a picture of how they use their time – in terms of things like writing emails, hours spent on tasks, or time in meetings.
- Recommendations: Viva Insights will also begin to make personal recommendations to the individual to support their productivity. For example, it might notice you are working on one specific project and therefore provide suggestions for documents you
On the individual level, Viva Insights is about helping workers help themselves. These features are designed to enhance wellbeing and, overall, give them greater satisfaction in their jobs.
Contact Us About Microsoft Viva Insights
Explore how implementing Microsoft Viva Insights can help your midsize to enterprise-size business perform its best. Your team members are one of your company’s most important investments. So, learn how Viva can transform your performance as an employer. Contact us regarding Microsoft Viva Insights Consultants by clicking on the live chat button or giving us as a Microsoft Viva Insights Partner a call at 310-694-3844 today.
As a Microsoft Partner, we can become your Modern Workplace consultant. We can go into detail with you on all the features that Microsoft’s office suite provides, and we can design a system that meets your specific requirements. If needed, we can also meet DoD compliance and the regulatory financial requirements that may be a necessity in your business.
Interested? If so, contact us today and learn more about the software features that can transform your business into a modern workplace.
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