Hybrid work in an unsure financial local weather is inflicting many leaders to rethink learn how to scale significant connections amongst their distributed groups. More than half (51 %) of workers surveyed for our Work Trend Index say relationships outdoors their rapid work group have weakened.1 At the management degree, constructing social capital is essential to the success of office tradition. In reality, 68 % of enterprise decision-makers view cohesion and social connections inside groups as a reasonable to robust problem because of the shift to hybrid work.
For over 10 years, Yammer has been the social cloth for Microsoft’s productiveness cloud, bringing neighborhood and conversations into the apps that folks work in day by day. However, in an more and more distributed world of labor, neighborhood engagement is crucial to how individuals and groups come collectively and is a vital pillar of the worker expertise, which is why final yr we launched Microsoft Viva Engage, an evolution of the Yammer Communities app in Microsoft Teams, as the most recent a part of Microsoft Viva.
We’ve heard your suggestions on this preliminary step and within the coming yr, all of Yammer will grow to be Viva Engage, retiring the Yammer model. In addition, we’ll proceed to reinforce Viva Engage with new capabilities that spur management engagement, genuine expression, occasions, and information discovery, together with new experiences rolling out immediately.
Microsoft Viva Engage
Connect everybody at your group by worker communities and conversations.
Yammer is evolving to Viva Engage
The subsequent part of the evolution will begin subsequent month, March 2023, with updates to the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android. Outside of branding adjustments, there aren’t any adjustments to the options, capabilities, and investments for Microsoft 365 prospects. You will proceed to expertise and profit from the ability of Viva Engage simply as you probably did with Yammer, with no lack of continuity. In addition, we’ll proceed to construct new capabilities that understand the ability of neighborhood, company communications on the organizational scale, and information sharing. We are enthusiastic about how this alteration will create a unified Viva Engage expertise all through the net, cellular, and different endpoints and produce consistency for Yammer and Viva customers. This evolution makes means for brand spanking new Viva capabilities powered by Viva Engage and can streamline options, sources, coaching, documentation, and help for patrons. Read on to study extra about what’s coming and when you possibly can count on to see Yammer evolve into Viva Engage.
Connecting individuals within the hybrid period
New experiences rolling out for Viva Engage
In September 2022, we introduced a new wave of capabilities in Viva Engage that spurs management engagement, genuine expression, occasions, and information discovery. Today, these experiences start to roll out worldwide for Viva suite and Microsoft Viva Topics prospects.
Leadership Corner offers an area for leaders to attach with workers, showcase worker useful resource teams, and foster tradition by discussions, storyline posts, occasions, and extra. Employees see the leaders that they’re related to inside their group, after which leaders and their delegates can promote, mixture, and launch initiatives from a single place. A brand new collection of intuitive dashboards monitor metrics and worker sentiment to assist management groups maintain a pulse on conversations and information the dialogue with their workers.
Leadership Corner additionally introduces a brand new occasion type in Viva Engage known as Ask Me Anything (AMA) occasions to additional drive engagement. AMA occasions modernize the usual city corridor expertise by upvoting, Q&A, and interesting dialogue options like GIFs and pictures. Long-running AMAs work effectively for leaders with globally distributed groups so everybody will get a chance to ask questions, upvote others’ questions, and get responses from their leaders. AMAs additionally present moderation controls so leaders can hear what actually issues, reply questions, and be sure that workers have the newest info once they want it most.
Leaders and company communicators may now create campaigns to drive key initiatives that help enterprise objectives and goals. These campaigns are routinely pulled into Leadership Corner and embrace a devoted marketing campaign web page, a visible Goal Tracker to measure progress, and the flexibility to showcase key sponsors and acknowledge high contributors.
Remote work has strained ambient information switch and logistical hurdles for workers attempting to study from one another. Employees who frequently search particular person experience from their friends can discover the method irritating or limiting on account of many elements like time zones, overloaded inboxes, or complicated organizational silos. Answers in Microsoft Viva is now rolling out to Viva suite prospects and Viva Topics prospects as a brand new tab in Viva Engage. Answers makes use of Viva Topics and wealthy AI to floor and match worker inquiries to solutions and consultants, bringing collective information to work for everybody.
Answers surfaces related questions which have been answered, recommends subjects and consultants, highlights high options, and prompts and rewards individuals for contributing solutions to the information base.
To higher perceive engagement inside Viva Engage, we’ve added new Advanced Analytics that drill down into a wide range of dashboards, together with devoted metrics for private analytics, viewers analytics, marketing campaign analytics, and international solutions. Customizable date ranges assist you to decide attain and engagement over time to offer a deeper have a look at what’s occurring in Viva Engage. All metrics are aggregated and de-identified for privateness. They are on by default however may be toggled off by a Global Admin. Learn extra about what’s included in these analytics and management how they’re rolled out on the Microsoft Viva Tech Community weblog.
Viva Engage in Outlook and cellular
In March 2023, the prevailing Communities app for Outlook shall be up to date to replicate Viva Engage branding. This change will occur routinely, with no motion essential to see this replace. Customers can use the brand new Viva Engage app to remain on high of neighborhood and dialog exercise immediately from Outlook, whether or not within the desktop app or internet expertise.
Also in March 2023, the Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android may also be up to date to Viva Engage to offer a local mobile-first expertise that’s optimized for social sharing and wealthy media. To see the brand new expertise, you’ll must replace your app. Viva Engage can be used by the Teams cellular app.
Get Microsoft Viva immediately
The new experiences for leaders, communicators, and workers that we introduced can be found to Microsoft Viva prospects and start rolling out immediately. Learn extra about every characteristic and the licenses required.
Looking forward
We wish to sincerely thank all of our Yammer and Viva prospects who’ve been on this journey with us, and we’ll proceed to speak concerning the timing and adjustments that you would be able to count on to see on the Yammer Tech Community weblog. Please observe this alteration doesn’t affect the present pricing or capabilities out there to present Microsoft 365 prospects.
We look ahead to constructing the way forward for Viva Engage collectively and have large plans for Microsoft Viva within the coming yr and past.
To study extra concerning the adjustments introduced immediately, be part of us on February 23, 2023, for an AMA with the product leaders from the Viva Engage group.
Frequently requested questions
Is this a complete rebrand of Yammer?
Yes, we began this journey with the rebranding of the Communities app in Teams in 2022. Over the following yr, the remaining Yammer experiences shall be rebranded to replicate Viva Engage branding and higher align with Microsoft Viva.
What does this imply for Yammer?
Yammer will proceed as Viva Engage, with the following step being the rebranding of the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer cellular apps for iOS and Android. Over the following yr, all of Yammer shall be rebranded into Viva Engage.
This doesn’t change the present capabilities, worth, or pricing to Yammer for current Microsoft 365 prospects or M365 SKUs. Leadership Corner, Advanced Analytics, and Answers in Viva shall be out there to Viva suite prospects. Answers in Viva may also be out there to Viva Topics prospects.
Will any Yammer performance now not be out there as a part of this alteration to Viva Engage?
There aren’t any adjustments to the options or performance ensuing from this alteration.
Where can I get assist establishing Viva Engage?
Reach out to FastTrack, your account supervisor, or discover ways to deploy Yammer/Viva Engage.
We will assist talk this alteration and have made out there a sophisticated deployment information by FastTrack for prospects.
You may discover useful adoption supplies at Viva Engage Adoption. We will proceed so as to add supplies for patrons to make use of for communication and coaching as extra capabilities grow to be out there.
Will the identical content material moderation and different admin insurance policies set in Yammer be transferred over to Viva Engage?
Yes, all administrative insurance policies and capabilities will stay. Download this FAQ for an in depth have a look at Viva Engage for admins.
1Work Trend Index, WorkLab, Microsoft.