{"id":1492,"date":"2019-12-03T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2019\/12\/03\/quantifying-impact-technology-it-process-employee-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:45:48","slug":"quantifying-impact-technology-it-process-employee-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/quantifying-impact-technology-it-process-employee-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: A concrete way to measure IT\u2019s impact on an employee\u2019s at-work experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s been a lot written about how Microsoft\u2019s huge turnaround under Satya Nadella is the result of a culture change. When we analyze the things that drive culture and look for ways we can support other organizations who are making changes of their own, we consistently find that IT has an outsized number of opportunities to positively impact employee sentiment and loyalty\u2014both of which are critical parts of any organization\u2019s cultural transformation.<\/p>\n
Improving employee sentiment and employee loyalty is also a critical way for an organization to attract winning talent. When workers have a modern workplace experience that is connected, flexible, and empowering, it sends a clear signal that they\u2019re valued and they work for a forward-leaning organization.<\/p>\n
Cultivating and positively reinforcing these attributes within your workforce is obviously valuable, but to make these changes replicable and actionable among our customers worldwide, we needed to study and quantify how this happens. We worked closely<\/a> with leading experience management company, Qualtrics, as they\u2019ve exhaustively studied how to do this.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what we learned.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not particularly revolutionary to say that some of the most advanced tools for productivity and user experience are found in Microsoft 365<\/strong><\/a>. This platform empowers users to work anywhere across their devices\u2014and it has been built to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of users, IT, and security, so that it is valuable to every stakeholder in your organization. I like to refer to Microsoft 365 as loved by users, loved by IT, and trusted by all<\/em>.<\/p>\n To really make the most of Microsoft 365 value, we worked with organizations to help them modernize their workplace experiences by deploying Microsoft 365 through our Microsoft Managed Desktop<\/a> service. With Microsoft Managed Desktop, we manage these PCs on behalf of the customers<\/a>, and they use Microsoft 365 as the foundation for their productivity\/management\/security. This setup is something I call \u201cMicrosoft 365 native.\u201d<\/p>\n A Microsoft 365 native PC:<\/strong><\/p>\n The result can be seen in something I like to call \u201cthe most boring demo in the world<\/a>,\u201d which I think will blow you away<\/a>.<\/p>\n For these customers, we deployed the Microsoft Managed Desktop baseline and set of policies to manage and secure the environment. The Microsoft Managed Desktop service leverages the built-in capabilities of Microsoft 365. We consider it the gold standard when it comes to the architectural approach, the required policies needed to secure devices, and the ways we believe PCs should be deployed, managed, and operated to exceed the expectations both users and IT.<\/p>\n As these initial organizations were moving into the Microsoft Managed Desktop service, we had an interesting opportunity to work with a few organizations to measure and concretely quantify the difference in employee sentiment between the users with a modern workplace and the Microsoft 365 native experience delivered by Microsoft Managed Desktop. Accounting for dozens of variables, the impact and results of this study were impressive.<\/p>\n One of the biggest things we learned had to do with the reaction to changes in the technology experience. Comparing the two control groups<\/a>, the Microsoft 365 native devices (managed by the Microsoft Managed Desktop service) had a boot time that was 85 percent faster<\/strong>, an immediate resume experience<\/a>, 2x the battery life<\/strong>, and 85 percent fewer crashes<\/strong>. Users of these Microsoft Managed Desktop-based Microsoft 365 native devices definitely<\/em> noticed these improvements<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The real question, however, is how this kind of change in technology impacts employee sentiment and loyalty<\/a>. This question is an area where Qualtrics\u2019 expertise in measuring, analyzing, and understanding employee experiences discovered some fascinating data on just how significant the impact was.<\/p>\n Below is a page I took directly from the report they delivered to us:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The measurement I found most impactful deals with how much more valued these employees feel by their company when they have that Microsoft 365 native work environment. This increase in employee sentiment translates into happier and more fulfilled employees. Having happier employees directly impacts the customer experience your organization delivers, which in turn increases long-term employee loyalty.<\/p>\n The data from the couple of organizations in which we deployed the survey indicates that loyal employees<\/a> stay with an organization longer, and this results in less employee churn, which results in the entire organization operating at a higher and more productive level. One of the most rewarding things we\u2019ve done with this research is to show the results to the senior leaders of these companies and emphasize to them the impact of their IT organization.<\/p>\n These insights from Qualtrics really illustrate the impact of modern management<\/a>. When you deploy modern technology and manage it in a modern way, you can extend this same experience to your users. The Microsoft Managed Desktop service uses System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Microsoft Intune\u2014what we now call Microsoft Endpoint Manager<\/a>\u2014to simplify management and ensure your users are having a great experience.<\/p>\nModernize the workplace experience<\/h3>\n
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Adopt what works at work for workers<\/h3>\n
Make it real for your organization<\/h3>\n