Viva Engage (Yammer)

Powerful workplace communities and leadership engagement

Viva Engage (Yammer) is Microsoft’s rebranded social network for organizations, designed to turn scattered corporate communication into structured, searchable conversations. It keeps all the familiar Yammer features under a fresher identity, focusing on company-wide communities and leadership visibility.

The core strength of Viva Engage lies in its community-driven approach. You can join topic-based or department-based spaces, ask questions, and crowdsource ideas from colleagues across the company. Rich posts with files, images, videos, and links are easy to create, and they surface not only in Viva Engage itself but also across Microsoft Viva Connections, Outlook, and Teams, which makes content feel truly integrated into daily work.

Leadership engagement is a clear highlight. Town halls, all-hands meetings, and live events stream directly into your feed, with comment threads and reactions that make large-scale communication feel more interactive. For global or hybrid teams, this can be a powerful way to keep everyone aligned and heard.

The interface is modern and fairly intuitive, with a focus on the feed and notifications. Interactive notifications from the lock screen help you respond quickly without getting lost in endless menus. However, in very active organizations the feed can become noisy, and fine-tuning notification settings is almost mandatory. Performance can occasionally feel sluggish when loading long threads or media-heavy posts, particularly in massive communities.

Viva Engage is best suited to companies already invested in Microsoft 365 that want a social layer over their collaboration tools. If your organization embraces open dialogue and knowledge sharing, it can become a central hub for culture, communication, and community—provided you’re willing to spend a little time curating your feed and settings.