Building on final month’s announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot,1 we’re excited to announce Copilot in Microsoft Viva, together with the introduction of Microsoft Viva Glint, to assist organizations create a extra engaged and productive workforce.
In right this moment’s fast-paced enterprise world, worker productiveness is seen as key to driving efficiency—and that’s actually true. But it’s necessary to keep in mind that productiveness alone can not result in sustained success. In reality, relying solely on productiveness stifles creativity, limits teamwork, and will increase worker burnout. Our newest analysis2 reveals probably the most profitable organizations are those who prioritize each productiveness and worker engagement—companies with an engaged workforce carried out twice as effectively financially in comparison with these with a disengaged workforce.3
With Copilot, Microsoft Viva takes benefit of next-generation AI to speed up this new efficiency equation, the place engagement and productiveness result in higher enterprise outcomes and success. Copilot in Viva is constructed on the Microsoft 365 Copilot System, which mixes the facility of enormous language fashions (LLMs) together with your information within the Microsoft Graph and the Viva apps to provide leaders a wholly new solution to perceive and interact their workforce.
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Empower and interact your workforce with next-generation AI and insights in Microsoft Viva.
Drive readability and alignment throughout your workforce with Copilot in Viva
While hybrid work has given us extra flexibility, it has additionally made it more durable to create readability and alignment round firm and crew priorities. In our latest 2023 State of Goal Setting Report carried out by Forrester Consulting, 50 % of surveyed practitioners acknowledged that having extra readability round their targets offers them a larger sense of objective and motivates them to work more durable. But providing this readability continues to be a problem—solely 39 % of practitioners perceive organization-level targets.4
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Goals simplifies aim setting by guiding leaders by way of the method of making goals and key outcomes (OKRs) in addition to simplifying aim administration throughout the group. Copilot can recommend draft OKR suggestions based mostly on current Word paperwork, akin to an annual marketing strategy or a product technique paper. Once created, Copilot saves staff time by summarizing the standing of OKRs, figuring out blockers, and suggesting subsequent steps. Lastly, Copilot can consolidate current information to generate extra complete check-ins so groups can leverage a breadth of data throughout completely different sources of reality.
Uplevel communication and equip staff for fulfillment
Our newest analysis additionally means that high-performing organizations profit from sturdy management communications and engagement with staff. In the brand new hybrid world, leaders want to attach throughout distant and in-person staff, encourage and inform them, and create listening engines to evaluate workforce sentiment. In reality, 96 % of leaders say efficient communication is probably the most important talent they’ll want within the 12 months forward.5
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Engage helps leaders create compelling and galvanizing posts from easy prompts or trending matters inside office communities and storyline conversations. Copilot gives recommendations to personalize messages with choices to regulate tone and size and to recommend related photos, all to assist drive authenticity and engagement. Further, leaders can make the most of Copilot to investigate engagement metrics, assess sentiment, and suggest responses.
In addition to making sure nice communications, it’s important that the workforce has the talents and studying wanted to remain engaged and productive. Copilot in Microsoft Viva Learning suggests curated studying collections and concise data summaries tailor-made to particular roles or improvement wants—making it simpler and extra easy for leaders to assist talent and prepare the workforce.
With Copilot in Microsoft Viva Topics, staff can use a conversational interface to study extra about necessary matters in addition to see associated matters and tasks. Copilot in Answers helps customers assemble questions with the suitable specificity and completeness in addition to extracts the pertinent matters to assist categorize the query. Copilot in Answers additionally assists consultants in setting up full solutions by citing and together with the suitable references, sources, and consultants.
Use information to measure and repeatedly enhance your small business with Viva Glint
Our analysis additionally means that probably the most profitable organizations are those who embrace a mannequin of steady data-driven analytics and insights to drive enhancements in organizational productiveness and workforce engagement. However, 75 % of staff (and 80 % of managers) suppose their firm doesn’t solicit suggestions usually sufficient.5
We introduced final 12 months that Glint would be a part of the Viva household.6 Glint helps main organizations measure and enhance worker engagement to drive enterprise outcomes. Today, we’re saying Viva Glint will formally be a part of the Viva Suite in July 2023. Additionally, we’re excited to share that Copilot will come to Viva Glint, serving to to summarize and analyze hundreds of worker feedback and offering leaders with a contemporary solution to discover suggestions by asking questions by way of pure language. Further, Viva Glint will assist leaders speed up and deepen organizational understanding by bringing collectively aggregated worker engagement information coupled with behavioral and collaboration information from Viva Insights and the Microsoft Graph.
Responsible AI
Just like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot in Viva is constructed on Microsoft’s complete strategy to Responsible AI. Copilot robotically inherits your group’s safety, compliance, and privateness insurance policies for Microsoft 365, so you recognize it’s enterprise-ready. Our work is guided by many years of analysis on AI, grounding and privacy-preserving machine studying in addition to our Responsible AI Standard and a core set of AI rules: equity, reliability and security, privateness and safety, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability.
Looking forward at Copilot in Microsoft Viva
Copilot in Microsoft Viva will start rolling out to prospects later in 2023. You can check out our overview movies and signal as much as keep knowledgeable about Copilot in Viva.
Viva Glint will begin rolling out to prospects in July 2023.
To study extra and get began:
1Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A complete new solution to work, Colette Stallbaumer, Microsoft 365. March 16, 2023.
2Work Trend Index Special Report, Microsoft. 2023.
32023 Glint longitudinal examine of three,005,848 staff at 226 public organizations listed on U.S. monetary exchanges.
42023 State of Goal-Setting Report, a commissioned examine carried out by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, February 2023.
5Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Right? Work Trend Index, Microsoft WorkLab. September 22, 2022.
6Glint Joining the Microsoft Viva Employee Experience Platform to Help People Be Happier and More Successful at Work, Justin Black, Glint. February 17, 2022.