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Microsoft Workplace Analytics gives Office 365 users view of productivity metrics

Microsoft Corp. launched a new tool to its Office 365 enterprise plan today in Workplace Analytics, giving managers one more way to measure the productivity of their workforce.

Workplace Analytics is fed by data streams from Office 365’s email and calendar apps. It ingests sender data, subject lines, and time stamps; and then spits out a set of behavioural metrics. The dashboard offers views such as “Week in the life,” “Meetings overview,” “Management and coaching,” “Networks and collaboration.”

Microsoft says that it won’t be spying on your employees with all this user data. Customers own their Office 365 data and all the meta-data collected is aggregated from the entire company and stripped of identification.

In a blog post on Microsoft’s Office.com website, Ryan Fuller, general manager of workplace analytics, Microsoft, details some ways early customers have used the new product (some brands named are J.D. Power, Hershey’s, Macy’s, Gallup, Paypal, Johnson & Johnson.)

Customers can conduct customized queries with the application, selecting from different metric sets to try and illuminate trends. Metrics available include:

Workplace Analytics is available as an add-on to any Office 365 Enterprise plan as of July 6. No price is listed by Microsoft.

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