A Viva Engage community celebrating Pride has become a place of connection and support at a major US health insurer, breaking down geographical, departmental and even team barriers across the company’s almost 100,000 employees.

Using data from SWOOP Analytics to create monthly reports, posting those reports on Viva Engage and @mentioning people identified has created a new lifeblood in Viva Engage at consultancy company Bip.

Learn how connecting on Viva Engage helped employees in The Philippines continue to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, access fresh food, feel motivated and connected, all while helping others in need.

At Westpac New Zealand there has been a deliberate move away from traditional communication channels, like the intranet, to Viva Engage, where employees can engage in the content.

This has resulted in huge engagement numbers across Viva Engage and even measurable ROI on a home loan campaign.

When this major US health insurer wanted to inject some conversation in its Yammer community while everyone was working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, an employee shared photos of herself with famous people.

It kicked off a “brush with fame” campaign on Yammer, asking colleagues to share their encounter with someone famous. 

Engage Squared uses a bot to get people engaged on Yammer by asking them a personal questions in the “Social” Yammer community.

It gets employees logging onto Yammer to look around to see what else is being posted in other communities, it allows colleagues to learn more about each other, it gives everyone a break from the regular work day and it allows employees to “practice” using Yammer in a safe environment.

How did your company keep 50,000 employees connected during the COVID-19 lockdowns?

ANZ bank nurtured connections and employee wellbeing through competitions, cooking and culture - all on Yammer.

Working in some of the world’s most isolated regions can be a lonely existence, and keeping those people digitally connected with their colleagues can be a challenge.

It’s a challenge Aggreko, the world’s largest supplier of mobile and modular energy solutions, is overcoming with the help of Yammer.

If you’ve ever wondered about the business value of Yammer, RACQ can provide you with hundreds of examples where its employees have used the enterprise social network to solve problems to deliver a better service to its 1.7 million members.

And it has the data to prove it.

“They come to Yammer for the cats and dogs, but they stay for the work.”

Global publishing company Wiley actively promotes fun and socialisation on its Enterprise Social Network, Yammer, which has led to better business value and stronger two-way relationships across the organisation.

Westpac New Zealand launched Yammer to give everyone a voice and to break down traditional organisational and hierarchical divides.

Guess what? It works!

Email is where knowledge goes to die. Other than rifling through the history of those who were included in the email chain, where was this knowledge shared? This was the concern for RealFoundations CEO Chris Shaida a decade ago.

The key to ANZ’s Yammer success is using it as a listening tool for the bank’s executives and leaders, rather than a broadcasting tool, and providing leaders with the data to show them the impact of their connection.