If you want to learn how to successfully work in Microsoft Teams, and say goodbye to email - this is the story for you!

A Viva Engage community celebrating Pride has become a place of connection and support at a major US health insurer, breaking down geographical, departmental and even team barriers across the company’s almost 100,000 employees.

Viva Engage has become a psychologically safe space at tertiary educator Box Hill Institute. Employees feel empowered to openly share their personal stories with their colleagues and feel supported. The data backs it up.

Using data from SWOOP Analytics to create monthly reports, posting those reports on Viva Engage and @mentioning people identified has created a new lifeblood in Viva Engage at consultancy company Bip.

Sharing Bad Dad Jokes was the boost Meridian Energy needed to kick-start its Viva Engage & Yammer network.

What makes the community so important is that it’s been an easy and entertaining way to introduce Viva Engage to hundreds of employees who had otherwise never engaged on an ESN.

Learn how connecting on Viva Engage helped employees in The Philippines continue to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, access fresh food, feel motivated and connected, all while helping others in need.

At Westpac New Zealand there has been a deliberate move away from traditional communication channels, like the intranet, to Viva Engage, where employees can engage in the content.

This has resulted in huge engagement numbers across Viva Engage and even measurable ROI on a home loan campaign.

It must be every executive’s dream! The Most Thriving Viva Engage community at NZ Post is one that connects the leaders of those that deliver mail and parcels across the entire country of New Zealand.

CEO Emma Harrington admits she was nervous, and maybe even a little anxious, when she first started to share her thoughts, ask questions and open herself up on The NRMA’s Viva Engage network.

Fast forward four years and posting, listening and joining conversations on Viva Engage is the least pressured and most fun part of Emma’s job!

When the city of Sydney went into an extended COVID-19-enforced lockdown, it hit many people hard.

Western Sydney University launched a Gratitude Week to lift staff morale and boost positivity, while also bringing employees back to Viva Engage.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, CityFibre’s Software Delivery team had to immediately learn how to turn a successful physical workspace into a successful digital workspace.

Six months into working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employees at Syngenta were feeling drained by the seemingly endless number of online meetings and calls.

The Workplace Technologies team in the IT department at Syngenta stepped in to help its employees learn to work asynchronously, and reduce the time spent in meetings or replying to emails.

SWOOP Analytics’ Development and Operations team ranked No.1 in SWOOP’s 2022 benchmarking of M365 for Chat Liberated and Email Liberated measures.

While they use some super simple techniques to collaborate, they have enormous impact on productive working.

Gone are the days when it was an “us” and “them” relationship between service providers and clients.

RealFoundations has broken the divide by inviting clients to work together as a true team in Microsoft 365.

Working collaboratively is non-negotiable at consulting company Engage Squared. Learn how Engage Squared works out loud, whether that’s internally as a team, or for any project with a client.

The Leukaemia Foundation's “Celebrating our People” Yammer community has become a reflection of the culture at the Foundation, of caring deeply about patients and staff.

It’s this simple formula of sharing incredible stories that makes the Yammer community so powerful, and it’s all measured with data from SWOOP Analytics.

After more than 18 months dealing with lockdowns and remote working, law firm Hall & Wilcox wanted to inject some positivity into the workforce. It did so by using the Praise feature in Yammer to recognise employees.

When this major US health insurer wanted to inject some conversation in its Yammer community while everyone was working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, an employee shared photos of herself with famous people.

It kicked off a “brush with fame” campaign on Yammer, asking colleagues to share their encounter with someone famous. 

WaterNSW launched a Yammer campaign called #ThisIsMyStory to create a more inclusive, respectful, safe and diverse workplace.

With a geographically dispersed workforce, Imagination Technologies has used Yammer and Microsoft Teams to level the playing field, as well as creating a virtual space to replicate the office lunchroom.