Microsoft introduces the next chapter of Microsoft Teams Today, March 27, 2023, Microsoft announced the New Microsoft Teams desktop client. This new version of Teams promises to address customer challenges regarding ease of use, reliability, and overall performance. It will be available via Public Preview in March 2023 and generally available later this year. NOTE: […]
Posts Tagged ‘employee experience’
Microsoft Inspire 2022 Recap: “The Viva Edition”
Jump to: Viva Engage Viva Goals Viva Sales Other Viva News Microsoft’s annual partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, wrapped up Wednesday, July 20, 2022. While still virtual, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off his keynote by explicating the ‘digital imperative’ of infusing technology into all business processes. He implored partners to not just talk about digital […]
Viva Insights: Empower Hybrid Work Employee Experiences with Data-Driven Insights
Viva Insights In the ever-changing landscape of work, having data-driven intelligence is paramount for individuals, managers, and leaders. Viva Insights takes signals from across M365, Exchange, and teams and uses them to identify trends. From those trends, MS applies a ton of workplace insights gleaned from academic and hands-on research to derive from that data […]
How Our Nagpur Team’s Women in Technology Group Got the Ball Rolling
Perficient’s Women In Technology (WiT) Employee Resource Group (ERG) was introduced in our Nagpur Global Delivery Center (GDC) on the very apt occasion of International Women’s Day. The induction comprised of briefing all the women colleagues about the purpose of forming the WiT ERG in Perficient, its inception and growth story and its goals for […]
5 Takeaways from Perficient’s Modern Work in Healthcare Roundtable
As the state of post-pandemic work continues to evolve, the need for effective collaboration and communication is higher than ever. Yet security and privacy remain cornerstones for navigating increasingly digital workplaces. Healthcare companies are posed with unique challenges in adopting a hybrid, modern work environment. Recently, Perficient hosted a “Modern Work in Healthcare” roundtable discussion […]
[Podcast] What If You Could Make Employee Experience Part of Your Customer Experience?
In this episode, Kim talks with Chris Echelmeier, Senior Director in the the Microsoft Employee Experience practice where he focuses on driving culture change at the employee and the organization level and who has a unique perspective on what Employee Experience is, is not, and why it is becoming the top priority for business leaders […]
Perficient Colleagues Get Jazzed About Giving in 2022
Philanthropy-Based Employee Resource Group Hosts First Event Our colleagues at Perficient truly value giving back to the communities in which we live and work. When considering the number of colleagues our growing organization has, and learning how many of these colleagues around the world hold this value, we decided to develop our Perficient Giving Employee […]
4 Trends Shaping Hybrid Work in 2022
In the past two years, we’ve seen organizations and their employees lean into pandemic-spurred changes in how they work. If 2021 was about adaptation, 2022 will be about embracing change as the “new normal”. Here are four trends expected in the new year: 1. Hybrid Work is Here to Stay At Microsoft’s November 2021 Ignite […]
The Great Resignation and the Cost of Confusing EX and CX
Amid the disruption wrought by the Great Resignation (the informal name for the widespread trend of a significant number of workers leaving their jobs during COVID-19) and the chorus of companies yearning for “normalcy” to return, this change management professional would suggest “normal” was a trigger for the exodus, to begin with. In fact, forget […]
Perficient Introduces New Giving ERG
Philanthropy-Based Employee Resource Group Enables All Colleague to Give Back in Meaningful Ways The season of giving is upon us. Today is “Giving Tuesday,” the annual global celebration taking place the Tuesday after Thanksgiving where people around the world unite to give back in whatever ways they can. Perficient and our colleagues have a long and […]
4 Key Points From Our “4 Ways to Decrease Employee Turnover and Boost Satisfaction” Webinar
The pandemic has reignited the conversation around employee satisfaction. Many workers have valued the flexibility and the time they have saved with work-from-home and hybrid work models. COVID has also emboldened many employees to demand a work experience that is better than the status-quo and has made them more willing than before to ditch their […]
Can Change Management Help Solve the “Hybrid Paradox” Amid the “Great Reshuffle?”
We are all witnesses and participants in the English expression: “May you live in interesting times.” Eighteen months ago, who could have anticipated the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought an immediate shift for many people to work remotely. During this time, organizations hired many people who had not yet stepped into the office […]