Productivity is a balanced combination of intelligent planning and focused efforts or, in simple words, getting more things done in less time. Whether large or small, every workplace is primarily driven by efficiency, which manifests itself into productivity at a later stage. Lower or insufficient efficiency levels are bound to affect the business and jeopardize its sustainability and survival. Tools such as Microsoft Workplace Analytics can help managers understand and improve worker productivity.
Microsoft Workplace Analytics Productivity Tool
Microsoft Workplace Analytics is an employee productivity tool capable of providing a wealth of information that companies can use to understand their workers better. The data is generated via Microsoft Graph and is based on employees working patterns.
It taps into Office 365 data (email and calendar metadata) from our everyday work. The data collected can be used to yield unique insights into resource allocation, collaboration behaviors, and organizational networks to understand the organization’s needs. Bear in mind; that the tool leverages aggregated and de-identified metadata. In addition to the above, Workplace Analytics supports built-in privacy and compliance capabilities.
The new offering from Microsoft covers a wide range of organizational based initiatives like:
1] Building a Digital, Data-driven Enterprise
The single most crucial factor in building a true, digital, and robust data-driven enterprise is connectivity. Microsoft Workplace Analytics addresses this issue by assuring uninterrupted connectivity across people, processes, data, and systems.
2] Manager effectiveness
The behaviors of managers are pivotal in determining employee engagement and retention. Workplace Analytics can readily measure such abstract qualities. It can identify the qualities of top-performing managers who lead the company’s cultural transformation and help it grow. After identifying these traits, the top leadership can use them to drive a cultural change with managers in other organization departments. It can help boost overall productivity.
3] Sales productivity
Insights gained from Workplace Analytics could be used to identify the collaborative patterns of top performers in a workplace and then try to replicate the same in the organization—resulting in a significant increase in productivity. Some of these insights were expected, like the time spent with customers.
4] Customized queries
Every organization has its target customers, so; the desired digital application should have the ability to yield insights on activities and trends within the business, including time spent in email, time in meetings, after-hours time, and network size. The Microsoft product does this all. It can create custom queries and filter to aggregated population subsets, including regions, roles, and functions.
You can learn more about it on Office.com.
Can Microsoft Teams track productivity?
Yes, it is possible not through the Microsoft Teams but the Microsoft Workplace Analytics Productivity Tool. It can help the company see how much time employees spend on all Office 365 tools, including Microsoft Teams.
What does Microsoft Workplace Analytics do?
Workplace Analytics provides privacy controls to ensure your data is protected and compliant. You decide which populations to analyze and control data aggregation and de-identification standards. Workplace Analytics only analyzes Microsoft metadata.
