8 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021NEWS
mayworrysome,asit appearsMicrosoft
is stillaggregatingemployeeworkhabits.
Thetechgiantappearstohave
alsotakenpainstoavoidthebadtaste
itsProductivity
Score left in some
mouths. Though
Productivity
Score – and, by
extension, Insights- was designed
to monitor
how effectively
employees were
using Microsoft’s
tools, stressed-out
employees worried
that the tool could
be used to track them
individually. Still,
example screenshots
of the Microsoft
Viva tool still show,
in aggregate, how
many workers are
putting in more than
an eight-hour workday- something that
could be used as a
reminder to manage
work/lifebalance...
orencouragement
thatworkersneeded
toworkmore.
Still,Microsofttookpainsto
note that it doesn’tmonitorspecific
workers.“Microsoft Viva uses
aggregation, de-identification and
Employees will see something like this dashboard inside the
Microsoft Viva Insights page.An example of a top-down view of a team using Microsoft Viva and the
Insights tab, with work habits being tracked specifically.