Published Jun 17, 2024
The Viva Insights home and navigation will be updated to emphasize reports, with new features like employee engagement reports and Pulse surveys. Rollout starts late June 2024, completing by late August. No action is required for the update, which applies to Viva Insights subscribers.
Updated July 26, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon to Microsoft Viva: Improvements to the Viva Insights design and leader reports. In Viva Insights, leaders are defined as users who have been assigned the group manager role and who have at least 4 direct and indirect reports or as defined by their admin. This message applies to Viva Insight on the Desktop, the web, and Android/iOS. This message applies to customers with a Viva Insights subscription.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 399427 and Roadmap ID 399426. When this will happen:General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete by mid-August 2024 (previously mid-July).
How this will affect your organization:
Before this rollout: Viva Insights home was focused on highlighting metrics. We received feedback asking for more leader reports.
After this rollout:
Home page and navigation updates
We will update the Viva Insight home page and left navigation to highlight reports.
Employee engagement with leadership communications report
We will release a new out-of-the-box report on employee engagement with leadership communication. This report helps leaders understand the reach of their communications in their organization, and their employees’ engagement with the leaders' emails, meetings, and shared files to better understand the effectiveness of different modes of communication.
Pulse survey as a recommendation actionLeaders can now send a Viva Pulse survey from leader reports to quickly gather employee sentiment feedback. A leader can take these Pulse-related actions:
These features are on by default. Admins can disallow the app in their organization if desired.
Home page and navigation updates:
Employee engagement with leadership communications report:
No action is needed to enable this feature. Leaders can use this capability at their discretion. Inform your Viva Insights users that have been assigned the group manager role about this new capability and update any relevant training materials.
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout.
Learn more: Use Leader reports to uncover key business outcomes | Microsoft Learn
To learn more about Microsoft’s own review of this product with its works councils, please consider reading: https://aka.ms/VivaInsights/MSWorksCouncilsArticle