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Workhuman’s updated integrations with Microsoft Teams enable effortless employee recognition

More than ever companies of all sizes are adding workplace applications to meet the needs of dispersed, hybrid, remote and “work from everywhere” workplaces. As such, Workhuman®, the company revolutionising the way employees celebrate, connect with, and appreciate each other in the workplace, has announced updated integrations with popular workplace software Microsoft Teams. The new integration ensures recognition remains an easy and seamless part of the everyday work experience, no matter what tools employees are using.

The integration with Microsoft Teams makes it easy for employees to utilise the Workhuman Cloud – Social Recognition tool right from where they are working, without disrupting their workflow. Some activities that can be done through the Workhuman Cloud integration include launching a recognition nomination, receiving an award notification, and reviewing the award social feed within a Teams channel.

“Integrating with Microsoft Teams, puts Social Recognition in the ‘ecosystem’ where employees work and creates a culture that supports recognition and belonging. It removes the need for people to log in to another platform and makes recognising a colleague or team seamless,” said Chris Campbell, SVP of Product at Workhuman. “The integration with Microsoft Teams injects human connection into everyday tools employees are using to stay connected with their co-workers, especially during remote work. Social Recognition also elevates the award recipient’s experience above email notifications to create a moment of surprise and delight during the workday.”

How it works

  • While employees are chatting and collaborating within Teams and see the Recognition programme icon it will create an “aha” moment and remind them to recognise the people they are working with.
  • With the Workhuman Cloud integration employees can start an award nomination directly from Teams. They can nominate users they are chatting with or all members of their Team directly from the Team page. This eliminates needing to know how to log in to recognition, what the program URL is, remembering and selecting all the right people to nominate and creates quick and easy recognition.
  • The award notification feature rises above emails as another touch point to alert employees and let them know they are recognised and appreciated.

Recent Gallup research found that 77% of global employees who feel they receive the right amount of recognition at work strongly agree they feel loyal to their organisation – 3x more than those that do not receive the right recognition at work. In addition, more than 70% of employees who have good recognition experiences at work rate their lives more positively overall and are more likely to be thriving in their everyday lives compared to those who are not being fully recognised.

Workhuman recently earned the number one spot on HRO Today’s Annual Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings. This is an independent analysis of feedback collected from more than 400 verified recognition customers and buyers. Workhuman’s valued customers, who are championing cultures of recognition and connection within their organisations, have made it possible for Workhuman to make this list of top recognition providers for the past 12 years.

Workhuman has integrations with many of the most used employee productivity tools including Outlook, Yammer, and Slack.

About Workhuman:

Workhuman® is helping companies meet today’s biggest human capital challenges – including unprecedented turnover, employee engagement, hybrid work environments, and DE&I – through the Workhuman Cloud®, a secure SaaS platform that provides the industry’s best-in-class Social Recognition® solution. As the leading global provider of technology solutions, analytics, expertise, and services helping organizations of all sizes build and foster workplace cultures powered by employee recognition and crowdsourced feedback, Workhuman is revolutionizing the way employees celebrate, connect with, and appreciate each other in the workplace. Combined with unmatched data through Workhuman iQ™ we empower HR and business leaders with proactive insight to understand issues as they develop and tools to help them make the right decisions to align business objectives and culture to deliver immediate impact. And, with world-class award redemption from our proprietary global e-commerce network, Workhuman is committed to building more connected human-centered workplaces that recognize the value and potential of each and every employee.

For more than 20 years, Workhuman has been pioneering the human workplace by disrupting legacy and obsolete HR approaches to improve the employee experience at work, with solutions that engage with approx. seven million customer employees in 30+ languages, in 180 countries, generating 100 million instances of human connection. With dual headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and Framingham, Massachusetts, Workhuman employs 1,000 people who deploy solutions and services at scale, committed to helping companies improve returns on their most important investment– their people. For more information, please visit www.workhuman.com.

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Spectralink DECT devices now integrated with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway

Empower your business critical ‘frontline workers’

HORSENS, DENMARK –24th March 2022– Spectralink, a leading international enterprise mobility solutions provider, today reveals the launch of its DECT devices integrated with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway.

Enterprise organisations rely heavily on business critical ‘deskless workers’ – those that must go to a business location to carry out their role. We have all come to rely on those in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail & Logistics recently.

At the same time, Enterprise businesses globally have embraced the significant business benefits of cloud-based Collaboration tools.

Those ‘deskless workers’ must be able to communicate and collaborate easily with their colleagues who work across locations, shifts and time zones from anywhere, enabled by cloud-based communication and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams.

Spectralink has over 30 years of experience in bridging between Enterprise communications platforms & infrastructure, from on-premise digital PBXs to Private and Public cloud-delivered Collaboration tools, and engineering the world class devices that deskless workers need to do their job – wherever they are and whatever the environment.

This new integration further enables Enterprise customers to migrate to Microsoft Teams while keeping those business critical deskless workers connected through and after the process.

“Open integration is part of our DNA,” declared Julien Bertheuil, Managing Director EMEA at Spectralink Corporation, “and this latest integration proves our commitment to the objective of providing customers with choice over their preferred systems. As more and more businesses were coming to us asking for support migrating to the cloud to improve worker collaboration and safety, our experience in enterprise grade DECT, combined with our knowledge of the UCaaS market, meant we were ideally placed to develop this much-needed integration with Microsoft Teams. We hope more and more businesses will now be able to complete their digital transformation journey seamlessly.”

Mahendra, Sekaran, Vice President, Teams Engineering at Microsoft concludes: “Spectralink DECT integration with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway enables Teams users to use their DECT devices as another Teams endpoint, while getting access to all of Teams collaboration capabilities. Frontline workers rely on these devices to get their work done, and this new integration allows them to stay connected with their colleagues while on the go.”

Ask your Microsoft Partner about how Spectralink can support your business communications needs with DECT integration with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway, or contact us directly at www.spectralink.com/microsoft or email us at microsoft@spectralink.com

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Brightspace now integrates with Microsoft Teams

Global learning technology leader D2L today announced that its Brightspace learning management system will now have a deeper integration with Microsoft Teams, a leading online collaboration platform.

Brightspace users with a Microsoft Teams license will now be able to seamlessly transition between both tools with the Microsoft Teams – Course Connector. This integration combines the strength and versatility of Brightspace as a learning platform with the power of Microsoft Teams to bring people together as colleagues and co-learners.

For example, user enrolments will now be automatically synchronised between the two platforms. Also, Brightspace users will be able to create private channels for course sections and link back to their course homepage through a tab in Microsoft Teams.

“We’re incredibly excited to add a deeper Microsoft Teams integration for our customers so they can engage and collaborate much more easily using Brightspace as a central hub for learning,” says Chad Lane, VP, Product Management at D2L. “The COVID-19 crisis has seen a huge uptake in online learning. We’re constantly looking for ways to make the experience as engaging and rewarding as possible and offering integrations with collaboration tools like MS Teams is a positive step toward that goal.”