Employee Experience and Engagement | Microsoft Viva (2024)

FAQs

What happened to Microsoft Viva? ›

Viva Topics will be retired on February 22, 2025 and Microsoft won't invest in new feature development for Viva Topics going forward from February 22, 2024.

No. Because of the Viva Insights privacy settings, your employer/manager can't see any data from individuals. The personal insights that users track are only available to them. The data your employer/manager can see is only group-based data.

Viva Insights has three main types of insights available, Personal Insights, Manager and Leader Insights, and Advanced Insights.

Microsoft Viva is an integrated employee experience platform built within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams that gives you the ability to support connection, insight, purpose, and growth in your organization using your existing infrastructure.

We're taking some time to improve the Briefing email and give you more personalized content in your daily messages. As a result, we'll take a break from sending you your daily Briefing starting on January 15^th, 2023.

In the discussion about Microsoft Viva vs Sharepoint, much of the focus is on choosing one tool over the other. The truth is, Viva won't replace Sharepoint. Instead, it becomes more accessible via Microsoft Teams, and you can access more functionality.

Managers can't use Viva Insights to discern anything about a specific individual because of the differential privacy that Viva Insights uses. Additionally, the personal insights you see are only available to you, and your managers can't access that information.

Q1 Which roles have access to manager insights in Viva Insights and Advanced insights? Only managers granted access to the advanced insights app in Manager settings can see insights about their teams in Viva Insights in Teams and in the advanced insights app.

Your employer can see the following through Microsoft Teams tracking functions: All of your one-on-one, group chat messages (including the memes you sent.

More Ways to Improve Well-being & Productivity

Viva Insights is a truly groundbreaking way of thinking about business productivity technology. By building well-being features directly into the apps and tools people use every day, Microsoft is making it more likely that employees will remain engaged, happy, and healthy.

What data does Viva insights collect? ›

Viva Insights collects anonymized data (communication habits, workload, peak productivity times, etc.) from Teams, Outlook and LinkedIn. Once this data has been collected, the platform analyzes it to provide actionable insights. Customized dashboards are then generated to help users understand their work habits.

Viva Glint is a people-driven platform that provides visibility into the health of your organization and guides effective action. Viva Glint knows that ongoing, frequent surveying to collect employee feedback is essential to an organization's success.

Employee experience platforms (EXPs), like Microsoft Viva, support people and teams by helping organizations deliver more connection, insight, purpose, and growth.

Viva benefits from the advanced security and compliance capabilities that are built into Microsoft 365 and Office 365, as well as specific settings and policies of the apps each module interacts with.

All the capabilities you enjoy today with your existing M365 license will continue to be available to you, just under a new name, Viva Engage.”

Starting from April 1st, users in your Microsoft 365 organization won't receive Digest emails from Viva Insights anymore. If your users typically rely on the Digest email, you can advise them to switch to using the Viva Insights app in Teams and on the web, or the Viva Insights Outlook add-in.

Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer) is available right in Teams and on the web. It's a great way to engage with people across your organization, including leaders, coworkers, and communities.

If you're not getting the Briefing email, it might be because you previously unsubscribed, or because your admin disabled it for you or your organization. To opt in, follow the steps in Settings for the Briefing email. If you don't see an option for Briefing in your Viva Insights app settings, contact your admin..