The shift to widespread remote working during the pandemic has exposed weaknesses in businesses’ abilities to support and connect employees and maintain the corporate culture when people are away from the office environment. However, the employee experience has come even more under the spotlight in recent months. It’s an area that also has implications for attracting and retaining the best talent, with CCS Insight’s research showing that 76% of employees consider a good workplace technology experience to be an important factor in employment decisions. It’s All About Employee ExperienceĮmployee experience has been a growing focus for businesses for some time, thanks to people’s rising expectations about how they want their business tools to work, and compounded by increased complexity in the tools they rely on to do their job. The announcement marks a new chapter in its employee applications strategy, as the company builds on its increasingly dominant position in employee productivity and collaboration with Teams to embrace the burgeoning field of employee experience. On 4 February, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Viva, a new employee experience platform that combines tools to support employee engagement and well-being, learning and knowledge management, as well as experience analytics, all delivered through Microsoft Teams. New platform addresses a growing investment priority for businesses

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