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How can we make people feel more connected to their work teams through technology?
I recently read that 60% of employees feel less connected to their work teams since they started working remotely.
I know several people who have never attended work in person and even their job interviews were 100% remote, this was unimaginable before! In fact, since COVID-19, we have had to change some paradigms regarding telework, as Jared Spataro, Microsoft 365 director, says: “We need to stop thinking about work as a place and start thinking about how to maintain culture, connect employees, and harness human ingenuity in a hybrid world”
Given these changes, there is a need to seek solutions that integrate company employees with their work teams and also provide well-being for the individual.
Those of us who have worked remotely know that sometimes at noon we are having lunch with our computer in front of us, schedules become less strict, and there are days when we dedicate more hours to our work activities in a way that unbalances our social, family, or personal activities without realizing it, neglecting our well-being. To address this new challenge, there is a solution that can significantly help us improve this balance; however, in many cases, we have it within our reach and don’t know we have it. This solution is an entire platform called Microsoft Viva.
Some Microsoft 365 users have received emails with the subject “Your daily briefing” in which our Outlook “knows” the activities we need to do and tells us what tasks we have pending. This is thanks to Microsoft Viva, which summarizes documents, emails, and meetings so that Microsoft 365 users can find what’s most important for the next day. This is impressive, this small reminder has helped me send proposals on time that I could have forgotten, attend meetings punctually, remember simple things like writing this Blog and other activities I planned throughout my week.
What is Microsoft Viva?
It is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and workflow insights, using AI (Artificial Intelligence)
This platform is divided into:
Viva Learning
It is a complete training center, combining learning with workflow, which allows a culture of growth and development for the organization’s employees.
Viva Insights
Viva helps people and businesses thrive with recommendations to improve productivity and well-being. It shows you graphs of time spent on different activities, time worked outside of working hours, and other data that help us seek our personal and work balance.
Viva Topics
It automatically organizes content and experience across the organization to make information easier to find, acting as a Wikipedia within the organization, being a very important tool. Currently, employees invest up to 7 weeks a year searching for or recreating information.
Viva Connections
It brings together news of interest, conversations, and resources in the applications and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
In summary, we are at a point of no return, where the flexibility of new ways of working will be fundamental, therefore we must provide employees with tools that allow them to find a balance between their work connection and personal life. We are in an era where the technology to be used must be more human, working towards our well-being while maintaining productivity in our organizations.
I recommend taking a look at the following videos:
The Future of Employee Experience – YouTube
Microsoft Viva – Product Overview – YouTube
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