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No area of our life has seen such a rapid transformation in recent months as the way we work.
Flexibility on where, when and how we work will be key in the future
”explains Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
The group has already made significant changes to its Teams tool during the Covid crisis, which has accelerated and generalized remote work.
It now presents a new platform called Viva, which brings together collaborative work, training and human resources tools in a single space.
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Viva brings together everything an employee needs to be successful, from day one, in a unique experience integrated directly into the teams”
summarizes the CEO.
The company starts from the observation that companies now have a multitude of services for their employees (HR tools, information in the intranet, works council site, training offers, etc.) which are often so scattered that 'they are underutilized, sometimes even unknown to internal employees.
The era of teleworking makes things even more complicated, especially for people entering a new company.
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Our vision is to provide a platform for the employee experience that helps organizations create a corporate culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders,”
said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president, Microsoft 365.
Single entry door
Concretely, the platform which will be based on the capacities of Teams, brings together a series of modules, which will be enriched over time by Microsoft and an ecosystem of partners.
All integrated into an application customizable by each company.
Employees will be able to access all of their company's internal communication, such as the profit-sharing and profit-sharing policy, through a single front door.
In an era where the boundaries between professional and personal time tend to merge, other modules will allow employees to better manage their working and break time, and will facilitate exchanges within a team or the escalation of possible difficulties to their hierarchy.
Companies will be able to add data from third-party services such as the Zoom video conferencing tool, Workday and SAP SuccessFactors.
The same goes for training tools and more broadly for human resources, or even access to the production of in-house expert content.
Microsoft is therefore accelerating the digitization of human resources, a growing trend in recent years.
The Covid crisis makes even more acute the need to be able to develop the flow of information internally and beyond the corporate culture.
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In November, Microsoft had suffered a bad return after the provision for companies of its “productivity score” tool within Office 365. The tool, which detected the number of emails sent, the quantity of documents shared, or the time spent in meetings, was seen as a possibility of increased “monitoring” of employees remotely.
The company must have reviewed its copy.