Microsoft has come up with a couple of technologies, which look to encourage teams for adopting a much better approach towards meetings and also ensure that they do a bit of thinking before shooting a mail in the midnight.
The first thing is a Workspace Analytics Solution for Teamwork that the company has introduced. This helps to gather data from many sources in Office 365, including mailboxes and calendars to correctly understand the number of time users spends in carrying out focused work as opposed to their attempt to not be present during meetings.
Microsoft believes that the results of the monitoring, which they feel is not at all creepy, can get the teams to empower themselves towards better innovation and collaboration. Human Resource department can make use of the information to help innovate employees, who underperform.
In reality, management, which is enlightened about the progress of the organization, can use the information, along with the results of the survey, to be a part of the process of change. Workplace Analytics can help in putting to rest, the action plans to ensure that the enrolled teams clearly understand, how the change in habits would result in better productivity. The difference could be in the form of bringing forth any agenda to the meetings and then stick to that agenda.
There is nothing new as many HR analytics platforms available, which perform the similar action. Still, the ones who are brought under the platform of Office 365 and its ecosystem can welcome the technology to help empower their employees, who are not hardworking.
The second technology looks to push users towards a happy environment of terrific teamwork, through My Analytics Nudges. It aims to teach better habits among employees, while they perform actual work. My Analytics Nudges would provide tips in Outlook as and when it spots unhealthy behaviors. Still, it does not share thoughts on last night’s episode. Two kinds of nudges are related to calendar and keep a close eye on how stacked up the timing is getting.
