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Hybrid Work: Approaches for Business

Providing an insight into hybrid work strategies for organisations navigating the new normal. Drawing on recent research investigating the impacts of hybrid work—& suggested approaches for your business into the future.

80% of managers expect more flexible work arrangements post-pandemic

–Microsoft Annual Work Trend Index Report

Foster a holistic approach where all work functions come together reimagining how you engage with your customers, empower your employees and optimise business operations—all while cultivating innovation.

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Geniosity will help you get the most out of hybrid work at your business — get in touch for a free consultation. 

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Microsoft Teams for Business

By Daniel Smith

Collaboration software is getting better all of the time and Microsoft Teams is steadfast becoming the tool of choice. We are spoiled for choice in a market saturated with chat and collaboration tools (not a bad problem to have).

One of its obvious strengths is the integration into the overall Microsoft ecosystem. By 2019, 91 of the Fortune 100 companies was already using Microsoft Teams*.

The unified platform allows smooth integration with employees, content and tools – all in the same place where you are already working. When implemented successfully, the boost in efficiency will be felt throughout you workplace; as companies move to be more mobile, global, and social.

With the average employee spending 80 percent of their work time collaborating with others, the importance of a seamlessly integrated communication tool should not be underestimated.

By now, in 2022, most people have experienced at least one meeting in Microsoft Teams. This communication tool has become synonymous with remote work collaboration.

For some organisations though, their use of Microsoft Teams stops there – with that excellent video communication component. This only scratches the surface in terms of what Microsoft Teams can do. A whole host of plugins, spaces automations and workflows can be implemented to make your work easier and more streamlined.   

If your business is not using Microsoft Teams, then it should be; and if you are using it, are you using it to its full potential?

Fortunately, the days of emailing around different versions of the same spreadsheet are fading away as more and more companies embrace true, collaborative teamwork. 

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* Microsoft 2019 Q3 earnings

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Streamline Microsoft Office 365

The top automations and actions that will save you time in O365.

There are stacks of options for automation within the Microsoft 365 eco-system. Automation allows you to set up a process that runs automatically to reduce manual processing and repetition.

Microsoft Power Automate is an excellent cloud program in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Previously called Microsoft Flow, Power Automate allows you to create actions that will save you time.

There are also other great automation options around, outside of the Microsoft eco-system such as Zapier, Tray.io, and Integromat. These can still be integrated with Microsoft 365.

We have put together a quick list of 5 quick and easy automations to get you started.

1. Save email attachments in Outlook to OneDrive

This is fairly simple time saver which automatically saves all of the attachments sent to your Office 365 Email address to a folder in OneDrive for Business. A few tweaks, would allow you to change the folder locations to even sort into folder by date or by sender.

Automate it!

2. Save email attachments from Outlook.com to Dropbox

Similar to the above automation, this one takes attachments received at your Outlook.com email address and saves them to Dropbox. Follow up additions could see you add an email or notification to another email address such as Gmail.

Automate it!

3. Create a task in Planner when a new email arrives in a shared mailbox

This is a handy automation that triggers when an email arrives into a shared mailbox. Let’s say that your company has a customer service or support email address and when an email is received, a task is created in Microsoft Planner with a due date after a specified time. This could be used to create a support ticket for follow up by staff. Assign a due date of how long you would like, say 48 hours to have the issue actioned or resolved. 

Automate it!

4. Email me with a list of upcoming Calendar events

This automation is rather clever, you can schedule it to run whenever is best. It analyses the following week in your calendar, looking for events, flights, hotels, weather information and locations, and sends you a handy summary via email.

Automate It!

5. Email yourself new Tweets about a certain keyword

Easily track tweets containing specific keywords on Twitter, according to your interests. You will get an email every time that your keyword is included in a tweet. This could be a good way to track your brand specific keywords or just keep up on the latest #CatVideos 😺

Automate it!

So, there are a few automations to get you started, but as you can imagine, the options are basically endless. Take a look at some more templates on Microsoft’s Power Automate site.

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