The pandemic has fundamentally changed how people value where they work, how they work, and most of all — why they work. Both Hybrid Work Paradox and Great Reshuffle have made it a strategic priority for organizations large and small to change their culture, values, and operational models to stimulate human connection, tailored to a sense of mission, ensuring the welfare of the employee, and keep their best people.1 Now more than ever, companies need effective tools that put their people first. A year ago today, we announced Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform (EXP) built for the hybrid era to help accelerate this change.
Microsoft Viva empowers organizations to promote a culture where people thrive
In just one year, Viva now has over 10 million monthly active users. More than 1,000 paying customers — including Blum, Nationwide, Old Mutual, PayPal, REI, and Unilever — are using Microsoft Viva to build a better employee experience, from digital office growth and excellence to development of a connected culture for frontline workers.
Since our first announcement last year, Viva Connections, Viva Insights, Viva Topics, and Viva Learning have all been available. Later this year, Viva customers will also benefit from a new Viva-based goal and key results (OKRs) service powered by our acquisition of Ally.io.
With our partners
To help customers generate value from Viva, we recruited more than 200 Viva solution partners, including global companies such as Accenture/Avanade, EY, KPMG, PwC, and Tata Consultancy Services, and we have trained more than 5,000 partner individuals — both business consultants and technical architects. We are committed to increasing the capacity and capability of our Viva partner in the coming years.
Microsoft Viva is an open and expandable platform that integrates and enhances your existing HR systems, learning management systems, content providers, and employee workflows. We have established a wide range of partnerships including ServiceNow, Qualtrics, Headspace, Cornerstone OnDemand, Workday, Espressive, OpenSesame, and EdCast, and will continue to bring new partners to the platform. In addition, we work closely with our LinkedIn colleagues to integrate LinkedIn Learning and Glint into Viva.
At Microsoft, we are on the same journey as our customers in using Viva for our own use. In our blog series about developing Viva, we describe our early thinking of an EXP as well as recent progress on our own deployment here at Microsoft. We hope these experiences, which we will continue to share, will help you discover new ways to empower and support your people.
Looking to the future
Now, as we think about our first anniversary, we’re both inspired and humbled to see the passion and enthusiasm from customers as they invest in their own employee experiences — and how Microsoft Viva plays an important role. role to help them evolve as the world’s employee experience platform for the hybrid period.
1Microsoft and LinkedIn share the latest data and innovation for hybrid work, Jared Spataro, Microsoft. September 9, 2021.
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