Microsoft Viva is a suite of solutions. It is the formation of communication, knowledge, learning resources and productivity and wellbeing insights. Viva delivers a modern employee experience platform combined within existing Microsoft App.
An Insight into Microsoft Viva
The Microsoft Viva Insight in Microsoft Teams shows personalised recommendations that help you reach your full potential in work. Insights allows access for building better work habits, such as dedicating focus time for interrupted individual work and following through on collaborations.
Your personal insights and actions in the Viva Insight app are based on your Exchange Online mailbox data such as email and calendar data. For example, you can manually review each email in your mailbox to determine the commitments you made to others. The insights app is very useful as it saves you from this dreary process.
The Insights app are completely personal and private. Personal \insights cannot be seen by your managers or any administration and re for your eyes only.
By using the Viva Insights, you can:
- Allows you to stay connected whilst collaborating with colleagues through features such as Al-based task suggestions and meeting assistance.
- Send Praise to your employees either in a private chat or Teams conversation.
- Experience a guided meditation from Headspace.
- Find more time to eliminate distractions and focus on core priorities.
- Take occasional breaks throughout the day for “breathing breaks”
- Check in with yourself occasionally and reflect on how your feeling
- Start a virtual commute- mindfully close out your workday.
- Use Microsoft To-Do to take action on tasks in your to-do list.
Balancing productivity and wellbeing
The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams is part of Microsoft Viva. Microsoft Viva brings together communication, Insights, knowledge, learning and resources into an employee experience that integrates into the apps you use daily, such as Teams.
Viva Insights helps individuals and businesses thrive with data-driven, privacy-protected insights and recommendations to improve the productivity and wellbeing of these individuals.
- Leader Insights- Helping businesses to address organizational resiliency and work culture with insight into how work impacts individuals and the business. This helps business leaders take further steps into protecting their employee’s wellbeing and grasp opportunities to improve business outcomes.
- Managing Insights- Provide much needed visibility into work patterns that may led to stress such as regular after-hours work, meetings and little focus time. Managers can use these insights to help their teams find a balance between productivity and wellbeing.
Unique Business Challenges
Microsoft Viva Insights produces useful insights about how your business and employees function; through analysing Microsoft 365 collaboration data and business data. This is provided through an upload that is presented in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Successful implementation and use of Viva Insights require careful planning regarding data protection because the potential sensitivity about how the data is used. See Microsoft Viva Insights in action: Improve Employee Wellbeing | Microsoft Viva Insights
