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Microsoft Viva – Enhancing the remote working environment

Microsoft has announced the Viva Platform that lives within Microsoft Teams to enhance the remote workers environment. This is known as Microsoft Viva.

What is Microsoft Viva?

In this new era of remote working, Microsoft has continued to innovate its Microsoft 365 platform to help those who have become accustomed to the “work from home” model and thrive in this type of environment.

Full comprehending this new way of thinking can help you decide if Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the right solution for Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform, which brings together knowledge, communications, learning, resources and user insights. This new platform integrates with Microsoft Teams and collects essentials parts of a business into one central area.

In a recent announcement, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella commented, “No area has undergone more rapid transformation than the way we work,” adding, “We have participated in the largest, at scale, remote work experiment the world has seen,” underlining nearly 11 months of a pandemic that has reshaped how people work, learn and live. “As the world recovers, there is no going back. Flexibility in when, where, and how we work will be key.”

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Employee experience & engagement

Microsoft 365 clients have access to Viva Topics now, and a public preview of Viva Insights is also available. Other modules will be released throughout 2021. Microsoft also plans to launch a private preview of Viva Learning and to announce more additions to the platform throughout 2021.

Further Information

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Work from anywhere!

Work from anywhere and flexible working has been a growing trend globally, with more companies embracing the latest technology to facilitate remote working solutions and arrangements, more recently driven by necessity throughout the COVID pandemic.

Technology has liberated people to work from anywhere, on any device.

For businesses, the benefits of flexible working have included increased productivity, improved employee engagement, and a drive to seek innovative solutions through new technology.