Microsoft launches new employee experience platform, Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Corp. has announced Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform to bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow of people’s work. Viva is designed to help employees learn, grow and thrive, with new experiences that integrate with the productivity and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.

“We have participated in the largest at-scale remote work experiment the world has seen, and it has had a dramatic impact on the employee experience.Every organization will require a unified employee experience from onboarding and collaboration to continuous learning and growth. Viva brings together everything an employee needs to be successful, from day one, in a single, integrated experience directly in Teams,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.

The announcement comes as economic and social trends are driving durable changes in workforce engagement. Amid the shift to an increasingly distributed and digital work environment, demand has grown for solutions that support corporate culture, knowledge discovery, on-the-job learning, and employee wellbeing.Microsoft Viva builds on the power of Teams and Microsoft 365 to unify the employee experience across four key areas engagement, wellbeing, learning, and knowledge, in an integrated experience that empowers people to be their best