Using Microsoft Productivity Score

Using Microsoft Productivity Score

Tracking workers’ productivity can be challenging, no matter where your employees are working. How can you make sure your employees are encouraged to become better performers? How can you help them utilise best practices? These are a few of the questions that managers often ask themselves. If they are looking at the wrong productivity measurements, it could impair the team’s performance.

In today’s modern-day hybrid and mobile offices, the value and work results are a better gauge than a simple “clock in – clock out” system. At the same time, you must remember to consider what may be hindering hard-working employees from delivering the best results. Technology tools may slow dedicated workers if are not trained to maximise their use. They may be used to old methods and techniques and do not realise that there is a better and faster way.

Yet productivity can be a tricky area to address. You do not want to invade the privacy of remote employees by tracking all their keystroke activities. In fact, overdoing tracking can lead to lower productivity.

There is a solution for this by using Microsoft 365. The Microsoft Productivity Score is a tool you can use to identify your team’s productivity.

What Is the Microsoft Productivity Score?

The Microsoft Productivity Score gives you insights into your employees’ usage of the various tools within Microsoft 365. This gives you the ability to work on improving team productivity and experience. The Productivity Score uses metrics, insights, and recommended actions to support companies to generate better results from their teams.

The Productivity Score focuses on:

1. People Experience

This measurement shows the use of Microsoft tools to transform work in collaboration, communication, and meetings. This includes:

• Communication: Use of chat, email, community post, and other tools for a unified employee experience.
• Content collaboration: Create and collaborate on content in the cloud
• Mobility: Access and use files from the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
• Meetings: Leverage meeting best practices to improve meeting quality
• Teamwork: Use of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint for collaboration
2. Technology Experience

This score helps companies support stronger digital transformation goals by optimising device performance and network connectivity. This includes:

• Endpoint analytics: The impact on the performance of endpoint software and hardware, including recommendations and improvements.
• Network connectivity: Factors that can affect your network and suggestions to address problematic areas.
• Microsoft 365 app health: Insights into the best productivity and security components in your devices.

The Microsoft Productivity Score looks at the core areas of your employees’ workflow in aggregate. These insights can be shared with your staff to boost their performance. It also includes hardware-related information, so you can determine if they are holding your team back.

Special Reports on Microsoft Productivity Score

Microsoft Productivity Score special report provides detail on business continuity. It shows you how employees’ collaboration and activities are changing. The report reviews how changes impact your team’s productivity.

How Productivity Score Can Benefit Your Company

#1 Automatic Metrics Tracking

The Microsoft Productivity Score provides you with a valuable metric on your team’s use of Microsoft 365 applications. This allows you to provide them with necessary guidance if they are not using best practices when using these applications.

#2 Insight to Understand the Data

The tool provides you with helpful insights to understand the data. You will be able to use these insights to improve your team’s workflow and save time.

#3 Recommended Action to Take

You will get actionable recommendations to improve a metric. These can be shared with the team to improve productivity.

Kickstart Microsoft Productivity Score in Your Organisation

We can help you get started with this tool to improve your organisation’s productivity. Give us a call on 1300 440 444 and we will have a chat.