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Reimagine the
employee experience
with Microsoft Viva
Nick Ledger
Modern Work Customer
Success Manager
Hybrid work: a durable trend

73% 80% 67% 41%

of employees of leaders say they plan of employees want of employees say they
want flexible to make major changes more in-person work are considering other
remote work to their flexible work or collaboration post- roles or companies
options to stay1 policies1 pandemic1 coming out of the
pandemic2

1Microsoft Work Trend Index: 2021 Annual Report 2The Great Reshuffle…
The driving force for any business is its people

Employee engagement Employee satisfaction Employee retention Profitability

86% of top-performing
companies say that digital
training programs boosted
employee engagement
and performance.1
94% of employees say they Highly engaged employees Organizations with highly
would stay at a company are 12x less likely to leave engaged employees have
longer if it invested in their their company than those 21% greater profitability.4
learning and development.2 who are not engaged.3

1PwC’s Global Digital IQ survey. 2LinkedIn Learning 2020 Workplace Learning Report. 3Glint. 4Gallup.
 What is an employee experience platform (EXP)​
A digital platform that helps organizations create a thriving culture
with engaged employees and inspiring leaders

Purpose & Alignment

Mission, Goals & Outcomes
Achievements & Recognition

Growth & Development Culture &

Learning & Coaching Communications
Onboarding, Lifecycle Moments News, Events, Company
Talent Mobility Resources, Communities

Wellbeing & Engagement Knowledge & Expertise

Physical, Mental, Financial People & Experts
Nudges, Feedback & Documents & Content
Sentiment
Microsoft Viva: employee experience platform for the hybrid era

Coming soon!

Viva Connections Viva Insights Viva Topics Viva Learning Ally.io

Culture and Productivity and Knowledge and Skilling and Objectives and
communications wellbeing expertise growth key results
Viva Connections
Culture and communications

Keep everyone connected

Encourage meaningful connections across the
organization by enabling employees to easily
discover relevant communications and communities.

Make it easy for people to contribute

Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every
employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.

Unite and inspire your organization

Align the entire organization around your vision,
mission, and strategic priorities.

Learn more about Viva Connections at aka.ms/vivaconnections

Viva Insights
Productivity and wellbeing

Deliver personalized and actionable insights

Empower individuals, teams, and orgs to achieve
balance, build better work habits, and improve
business outcomes with personalized insights
and recommended actions.​

Quantify impact of work on people and business

Gain data-driven, privacy-protected visibility into
how work patterns affect wellbeing, productivity,
and results. ​

Address complex business challenges

Use advanced tools and additional data sources
to perform deeper analysis, address challenges
important to your business, and respond quickly
to change.​

Learn more about Viva Insights at aka.ms/vivainsights

Viva Topics
Knowledge and expertise

Turn content into usable knowledge

Use AI to reason over your organization’s content
and automatically identify, process, and organize
it into easily accessible knowledge.

Organize knowledge into topic pages

Enable your organization’s experts to share and
refine knowledge through curated topic pages,
automatically generated and updated by AI.

Make knowledge easy to discover and use

Deliver relevant topics cards in the apps people
use everyday.

Learn more about Viva Topics at aka.ms/vivatopics

Viva Learning
Skilling and growth

Learn in the flow of work

Integrate learning into the tools and platforms
where users already spend their time with
Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365.

Simplify and centralize learning

Bring together learning content and tools
from different sources in one central hub.

Get personalized and relevant content

Find the right content and discover new skills
with personalized recommendations and search.

Learn more about Viva Learning at aka.ms/vivalearning

Microsoft Viva: employee experience platform for the hybrid era

Viva Connections Viva Insights Viva Topics Viva Learning Ally.io

Viva Platform and

Ecosystem
Microsoft Viva
partner ecosystem
Viva Connections
Shape culture and foster connections to help your
employees thrive

Powered by Microsoft Teams and backed by Microsoft security,

privacy, and compliance.
 Three ways to look at Viva Connections

Microsoft Teams App Employee Experience improvements across O365 Rethinking the mobile experience

Bringing the intranet front and centre where people New functionality across Office 365 (primarily Not just making it mobile optimised but rethinking
are working every day, regardless of location or SharePoint and Yammer at the moment) focused on how people digest and engage with content on the
device. modernising the employee experience. go.
Microsoft Teams App

Desktop app brings the

intranet front and centre into
the experience
Evolution of the Teams Home
Site App
Can be pinned to the top of
the app bar, can be branded
Recognises identity straight
through Teams so no need
for additional logging in
Search looks through all the
intranet
Improvements across Office 365

New employee experience

focused improvements across
the Office 365 suite
News feed functionality
bringing together Yammer
and SharePoint news
Dashboard functionality for
interactive engagement
Boosting news and news
integration across Office 365
(Yammer, Outlook)
Audience targeting and
personalisation
More integrations coming
(Viva, third parties)
Rethinking the mobile experience

Traditionally we would
talk about mobile
responsive. This is
redesigning the user
experience for mobile
first capability

Modern approach to
digesting and engaging
with content

Key parts of the intranet

brought through – Feed,
Dashboard, Links
Dashboard
A curated set of cards that provide access to
tools and resources tailored to the different
audiences in your organisation.
In the mobile experience there is functionality
available to show the dashboard in the Viva
Connections app.
In the desktop experience, the dashboard can
be displayed using the dashboard web part
on SharePoint pages.
Feed
The personalised feed aggregates relevant
information from across the organization. This
can be Yammer posts, SharePoint news and
Stream videos (APIs coming!).
Individual items can be boosted or featured
for greater awareness.
For the desktop experience the feed webpart
can be used to display the feed SharePoint on
pages.
Resources
This pivot in the mobile experience provides
quick access to personalised and curated
resources across Office 365.
Some resources are personalised based on
user activity such as followed sites,
communities and video playlists.
If global navigation is configured in you’re
the home site it will show under this area.
Microsoft Viva
at Microsoft
Krizia Ceccobao
Employee Experience
Product Marketing Manager
Microsoft internal experiences
Culture and communications

Curated and personalized

destination for employee
communication

Leadership
communication and
large-scale virtual events

Streamlined collaboration
in an inclusive space
Microsoft internal experiences
Productivity and wellbeing

Focus on
employee wellbeing
and resilience

Employee voice and

listening systems​

Manager effectiveness
and appreciation​
Microsoft internal experiences
Skilling and growth

Centralized learning
portal with personalized
learning by role​

Access to all learning

content in Microsoft
Teams​

Virtual training in a peer-

to-peer, collaborative
setting
Microsoft internal experiences
Knowledge and expertise

1,000+ topic pages

Knowledge sharing
across teams and
functions

Contextually relevant
search results in the
flow of work