{"id":10508,"date":"2019-05-17T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/?p=10508"},"modified":"2023-06-12T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:11:59","slug":"improving-employee-engagement-with-live-events-in-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/improving-employee-engagement-with-live-events-in-microsoft-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving employee engagement with live events in Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft uses integrated live event capabilities in Microsoft 365 to create, run, and share events of different types, audiences, and budgets. Using a single robust solution to produce events ranging from global all-hands meetings to specific topical webinars, leaders across the company foster employee engagement, information sharing, and meaningful conversations while achieving their communication goals.<\/p>\n

Employee engagement is a major contributor to workplace satisfaction, loyalty, and productivity at any company, and Microsoft is no exception. Interactive live events allow program leaders to effectively communicate business updates, training opportunities, announcements, and more in a way that makes an impact on the daily lives of employees and fosters ongoing collaboration and knowledge-sharing.<\/p>\n

With the\u00a0new live event capabilities in Microsoft 365<\/a>, the Microsoft Digital team at Microsoft began offering event producers a modern, seamless event-production solution for employee engagement. From small-team webcasts to all-hands meetings involving thousands of attendees, the solution increases the size and types of events that Microsoft employees can host, and improves employee engagement across organizational and geographical boundaries.<\/p>\n

Creating support for all types of live events<\/h2>\n

Employees across Microsoft need support to produce a wide range of live events, from self-service webcasts to large-scale professional studio productions through Microsoft Studios.<\/p>\n

In the past, the multiple systems that Microsoft employees used limited the capacity of live events to 250 participants. The growing popularity of live events\u2014which included all-hands meetings, webinars, employee trainings, and more\u2014meant that event producers needed a way to foster engagement with larger audiences. And they needed to do so without sacrificing the quality of video or audio broadcasts and event engagement.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Digital conducted two years of focus groups to understand how employees were producing live events. Across the board, they discovered that event producers wanted:<\/p>\n