Employee Isolation

Employee stress can be magnified if the employee feels disconnected from the organization or other employees. Working from home can help increase this feeling of isolation. Job resignation rates of employees who lost touch during the pandemic have hit record levels.

6.4 million workers quit their jobs at the start of 2022. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported 11.5 million job openings on the last business day of March 2022.

Microsoft has technology designed to keep employees engaged and collaborating, even when working remotely.

The Technology

Microsoft SharePoint and TEAMS allow remote workers to connect and engage with others using innovative technology in modern meetings. Webcams, whiteboards, chats, translations, collaborative working on live documents, and more technology make it easier to participate when not physically in the same room. As a result, modern Meetings ensure everyone stays engaged and collaborates, helping to forge connections that were lost during the pandemic.

Here are some isolation problems that Microsoft technology can solve:

Being the Last One to Hear About a Big Change Announced at the Company.

You can keep your partners, team, and colleagues in the loop as well as engage them with important or interesting stories by using the News feature on your SharePoint or TEAMS site. You can quickly create eye-catching posts like announcements, people news, status updates, and more that can include graphics and rich formatting.

Dealing with Different Document Versions Created by Employees Sending Files as E-mail Attachments.

If you send a file as an e-mail attachment, the recipient of that e-mail will now have their own copy of the document. Having their own version means that any changes to the file will create another different version of the doc that later will have to be reconciled manually to any originals. SharePoint and TEAMs use OneDrive to share links to documents in an e-mail. Rather than recipients getting their own copy, they are sent a link to a single shared copy that everyone can edit. No more versioning of documents as all changes are automatically recorded and can be edited later.

Users not being able to find critical files from others when they need them

All documents saved in SharePoint and TEAMS
are indexed automatically so that not only are their titles and document info are logged for searching, but the entire content included in the document is also indexed

As a result, SharePoint and TEAMS search can scan over 10 Million documents in less than two seconds to retrieve any results that match your
search

Not being able to see and engage with other employees durng meetings

Microsoft uses technology to adapt Webcams and Audio for remote workers. For example,
using Microsoft TEAMS, you can host meetings with large groups of people online, all sharing their webcam feeds. Microsoft can even blur your background for privacy, isolate cameras on the people talking, and even provide real-time transcription services (closed-caption) to attendees.

Participating in water cooler conversations about Babies, Birthdays, Anniversaries and more

Microsoft TEAMS provides places for interested employees to participate in online community exchanges. These social gathering spots allow employees to engage with each other in a more relaxed way. For example, users can create announcements calling out others for kudos, celebrating milestones, or making recommendations for seeing the latest movie or reading a great book.

Interesting Fact

Microsoft TEAMS was released in late 2016, and no one at that time could have imagined how important of a product it was to become when the global Covid pandemic hit in early 2020. Suddenly, millions of workers were sent home to work, and IT organizations everywhere were struggling to provide secure remote connections that could allow collaboration and communication capabilities similar to what employees had in the office. TEAMS was the perfect answer.

Novastratus Services:

Novastratus technical consultants can help organizations create, deploy, and manage SharePoint and TEAMS sites. In addition, we offer professional training to help users get the most out of these products and significantly increase their productivity.

We can also work with your IT staff to help migrate your sites to the cloud, flatten your site hierarchies, remove redundancies, and build automated processes to help file and secure your documents in storage for easy retrieval.

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