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Increase productivity and wellbeing with Microsoft Viva Insights

Microsoft Viva Insights is one of the four components that Microsoft released as part of the Microsoft Viva platform. Workers are not machines. This might seem an obvious statement, yet for a long-time business technology has largely ignored this fact. Whether it’s your email, CRM or even a spreadsheet, IT tools are designed with an exclusive focus on productivity. They’re about helping people do work as efficiently as possible. Of course, helping people do tasks productively is a good thing. But the problem is that most business IT platforms allow you to keep on working as long as you possibly can. However, the fact is that human beings need to stop and sleep sometimes! Especially in the era of remote working where it is easier than ever for people to stay connected to their enterprise productivity platforms, there is a real risk of people burning out. Viva Insights is therefore designed to provide both individuals and organizations with an idea of how people are doing at work.

All you need to know about Microsoft Viva Connections

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In February, Microsoft announced a new employee experience platform called Viva. Viva is experienced through Microsoft Teams and other 365 apps. Viva is broken down into four modules. In this insight, we are looking at Viva Connections. What is Viva Connections? Viva connections is one of the module of Viva described by Microsoft as ‘your gateway to a modern employee experience’. It’s designed to help people connect, focus and learn through flexible working. Bringing together relevant news, conversations and resources from your company. Communication Communicating with employees, particularly when remote working, can be a challenge. Viva supports this with a personalised feed in which employees can explore and contribute to company news updates. You can publish content from apps such as Yammer, SharePoint and Stream direct to employee feeds. A boost feature allows you to pin a news item to the top of the feed. The item will leave the top of the feed based on rules you set, fo