People are at the center of organization’s success—they should be at the center of your remote workplace strategy, too. Organizations are rethinking the employee experience in order to support hybrid work and stay competitive. But companies need to do more than respond to changes, they also need to prepare for what’s next.

Nearly 60% of employees say they feel less connected to their colleagues after shifting to remote work. 2020 was a year of challenge and change, permanently affecting the way business operates, as remote and hybrid work has become a necessity rather than a luxury. To thrive in this new world, your organization needs a culture of resiliency and adaptability with employee experience and wellbeing at the center. 

Hybrid work comes with its challenges. For business owners, it can be data protection and making sure that employees are meeting their targets. For employees, it can be long stretch hours of working or struggling with the adoption of multiple experience tools. It can also be not being able to collaborate with other employees. Whichever the challenge is, Microsoft Viva Suite, as a single solution, is an integrated employee experience platform that brings together tools and applications, that employees need, into one unified solution aligned across four key experience areas: Connection, Insight, Topics, and Learning.

Microsoft Viva connection aids communication. This is done by ensuring every employee is connected to their organization’s culture, personal productivity insights, expert knowledge, and key learning resource, to foster employee experience. Also, it is easier to align employee work to the company’s strategic mission and core priorities. In all, Viva empowers every level of the organization to address key challenges of hybrid work and employee burnout. With an employee experience platform like Microsoft Viva, make digital workplace connectivity, insights, organization, success, and growth intuitive and manageable, delivering benefits including: ​

• Empowering employees to feel more connected to their mission and more prepared to grow and learn​
• Enabling leadership with cutting-edge tools to engage and develop their employees​
• Simplifying IT processes to make digital upgrading intuitive and seamless ​

94% of employees say they would stay with a company if it invested in their learning and development. People want to grow—and that growth can and should benefit the entire organization. When employees are at their best, so is the organization. ​​

Microsoft Viva empowers your organization to connect your teams and gain personal, actionable insights that leaders can turn into opportunities for individual and organizational growth. deliver open and intuitive tools that leverage the entire breadth of Microsoft 365’s capabilities to empower your employees and teams to thrive. Managers can respond to employee needs while fostering a culture that improves team performance, work/life harmony, and wellbeing. Business leaders can leverage insights to drive better outcomes with tools to help them understand and guide how work happens.​

Keep everyone informed, included, and inspired.

Viva Connections is a curated, company-branded experience in Microsoft Teams. It gives different audiences in your organization a personalized destination to discover other Viva apps. Apps your organization is licensed for, such as relevant news, conversations, and the tools they also need to succeed. The Viva connection aids seamless communication and workflow. It supports a more inclusive work culture with spaces for conversations, company news, and shared interests.

Employees can explore news, join conversations, and connect with others across the organization in the apps and devices they use daily. Viva Connections is included in Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.

As HR, getting the right talent is one problem, but inspiring them in a hybrid work-mode is another.  I am really excited about the potential of Microsoft Viva to drive our vision for employee engagement going forward – Abayomi Adebanjo – Head Human Resource, Signal Alliance Technology Holding

USE CASE WITH SPARKLE; A FINTECH COMPANY IN NIGERIA

Viva communication is eliminating the hours spent to commute to office, by providing a seamless communication platform. This is to remain connected with colleagues and clients on the go. SPARKLE was faced with a problem to ensure their employees work from home to meet their customers’ demand while at the same time protecting their key data. Not only that, but they also needed to ensure efficiency by bringing together the social tools used by the organization. To solve the work from home problem faced by SPARKLE.

SA Consulting, a subsidiary of Signal Alliance Technology Holding, built an intranet portal for one of her customers, Sparkle Microfinance bank to enable them to integrate their social tools. With Microsoft Viva. Sparkle got a new integrated Employee Experience platform that brought together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in a collection of apps delivered in Teams. Microsoft Viva leverages the component of the Microsoft 365 Modern Intranet experience, that delivers a user-friendly communication tool that increases efficiency across units.

Viva connection provides a personalized gateway to organizations digital workplace. Employees can access internal communications and company resources like policies and benefits. Employees can also participate in communities like employee resource groups. all from a single customizable app in Microsoft Teams. Overall, the value Sparkle realized were Increased social engagement, increase usage of teams, SharePoint and Viva. This led to efficiency and cost management.

Uniqueness of Viva our solution for Employee Experience

With Viva Connection we were able to build a solution that helps build an engaging and interactive intranet portal. This is done, by bringing together the social tools (yammers, teams, SharePoint) + other company resources needed to build a dynamic intranet portal their employees love and engage daily, thereby bringing everyone together to keep everyone in the flow. With the uniqueness of our solution employees can find resources they need to do their jobs—all in one place.