Microsoft Viva Insights

Discover more about the Microsoft Viva module Viva Insights and learn how it can help you and your team build better work habits.

What is Microsoft Viva Insights?

Viva Insights helps individuals and teams build better work habits using actionable recommendations and data driven insights.

Experienced through Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Office.com, Viva Insights is privacy protected, with cloud security and privacy safeguards, so your personalised insights are only visible to you. Launched as part of Microsoft 365, Viva Insights leverages data and analytics to provide insights into employee work patterns, collaboration habits, and overall productivity within organisations.

By analysing Microsoft 365 data, Viva Insights offers personalised recommendations to employees, such as optimising work schedules, improving work-life balance, and encouraging focused work time. It also provides managers and leaders with aggregate insights on team performance and collaboration dynamics, allowing them to make data-informed decisions that foster a healthier work environment.

Privacy and security are prioritised, as the insights are anonymised and aggregated to protect individual employee identities.

What’s more, the platform integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft applications, enhancing its functionality by providing actionable insights in real time.

Organisations can utilise these insights to develop strategies that improve employee engagement, reduce burnout, and empower teams, ultimately leading to a more efficient and positive workplace culture.

As remote and hybrid work models become increasingly prevalent, Microsoft Viva Insights serves as a vital tool for organisations striving to maintain productivity while supporting their employees’ well-being and fostering a collaborative environment.

Viva Insights

What are the benefits of Viva Insights?

Viva Insights is designed to help limit distractions whilst encouraging more reflective and mindful workflow. Burnout is a challenge which many of us face, and this can occur when individuals are not managing their daily tasks in a productive way. To combat this, Viva Insights equips employees with the tools needed to stay on top of daily work objectives whilst making time for wellbeing and mindfulness.

Protect Time

Protect Time

The Protect Time function promotes uninterrupted work flow. Carry out individual tasks without distractions with the Focus Session and Focus Plan features in Microsoft Teams.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Prioritising your wellbeing at work is paramount. Access moments of mindfulness from within your Microsoft Teams environment using the Headspace app to help you stay calm and focused.

Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing feature is located within your Outlook calendar. It gives you an overview of your daily commitments to help you stay on track of your objectives and better manage your time.

Virtual Commute

Virtual Commute

Working from home brings the additional challenge of striking a healthy balance between work life and personal life. From within the Protect Time function, you can set up a Virtual Commute prompt to help you wrap up your day and switch off from work.

Send praise

Send Praise

Collaborative working and team building are at the heart of Microsoft Viva. Support your colleagues by sending acclaim privately via Microsoft Teams or show them wider recognition via Microsoft Teams Channels. The Praise feature also lets you send personalised Badges to your peers to express gratitude.

Insights

Viva Insights provides different kinds of valuable insights into various different areas of your organisation.

The four main types of insights are as follows:

1. Personal Insights*

Personal Insights help you to understand how you are working, and what actions you need to take to work better. With Personal insights, you can receive recommendations on how to work more productively, how to protect your wellbeing and how to manage your time and maintain focus at work. These insights can be accessed in Microsoft Teams, Outlook or in your personal Dashboard.

2. Manager Insights

Manager Insights offer visibility into work patterns that could potentially be leading to burnout or stress. These are made to help employees strike a perfect balance between productivity and wellbeing. Managers can see if employees are regularly working overtime, are scheduled in for too many meetings or aren’t using Focus Time. Recommendations can then be made accordingly to improve work behaviour.

3. Leader Insights

Leader Insights offer business leaders an overview into the effects of an organisation’s work culture on employee engagement and organisational resiliency. The Outcomes page allows leaders to action recommendations, or view opportunities where changes could improve business outcomes.

4. Advanced Insights

Advanced Insights will expand further on Leader Insights, helping business leaders of organisations to address critical questions around work culture. This will then go on to help them to improve their business processes, increase employee productivity and continue to foster a healthy work environment.

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