Personal insights in Viva Insights

Microsoft Viva Insights helps identify opportunities to build better work habits with personalized insights. You can prioritize well-being with actionable recommendations, such as reserving time for focused work, taking regular breaks, and practicing mindfulness.

Viva Insights includes the following ways to use personal insights to do your best work: 

• Viva Insights in Teams and on the web - Shows personal insights within your Microsoft Teams flow of work, including how to stay connected, protect time, use Headspace for guided meditation, and start a virtual commute.

• Viva Insights in Outlook add-in - Shows personal insights within Microsoft Outlook about how to prepare for upcoming meetings, gain focus time, maintain your work relationships, plan time away from work, and improve your overall work-life balance.

• Briefing emails in Outlook - Within two hours of your workday (as set up in Outlook), you'll get an email about any relevant items to help you stay in control of your calendar, including outstanding commitments or requests, upcoming meetings, and suggested times to schedule for focusing or catching up on messages.

  Note: We've paused sending Briefing emails to make some improvements. You can still access the Viva Insights Outlook add-in or Viva Insights app in Teams for key functionality until this service resumes. For more information about this change, refer to Briefing pause. 

• Digests in Outlook - Digest emails are generated by Viva Insights and sent to your Outlook inbox. They can help you better understand your work patterns and suggest ways to improve them.

• Note: Beginning at the end of March 2024, we’ll be pausing the Digest emails, which are typically sent twice a month. All the content from Digest emails will still be available within the Viva Insights app in Teams or on the web. You can continue to explore and analyze your data insights seamlessly. To learn more about this change, refer to the Digest email pause.

• Inline suggestions in Outlook - Notifications that appear in Outlook while you are either reading or composing an email or a meeting invitation. These suggestions, tips, and best practices are designed to help inform and guide you in making effective email and meeting decisions.