Businesses around the world are adapting to the remote work environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft came up with a new Power BI dashboard that helps companies gain insights on the productivity of their remote workers.
The Business Continuity Dashboard for Power BI uses Microsoft’s Workplace Analytics solution to track and analyze employee behavior. The dashboard can show insights, such as a percent of employees who are still connecting with their colleagues. It also shows whether supervisors are connecting one-on-one with their team members and how often they’re doing that. Lastly, the dashboard tracks which teams experience difficulties maintaining external collaboration.
Knowing the level of granularity Power BI can offer, companies can use a lot of valuable information about their teams.
How the dashboard is working
To start using the dashboard, users need to connect two pre-built queries, Hourly Collaboration and Business Continuity, to a new Business Continuity template. After using the two pre-built queries to populate a company’s dashboard, it is possible to customize the queries. Users can make it more fitting to their organization’s needs and requirements.
One needs the latest version of Power BI and have analyst privileges for Workplace Analytics to set up the dashboard. As all Power BI dashboards, results are refreshed every week.
Microsoft built the Business Continuity dashboard not for the general workforce, but possibly for HR executives and business leaders. The dashboard highlights in which parts of an organization the new working conditions disrupted efficiency or having the largest impact. This can help business leaders to come up with numbers and actual figures. This is much better than “he said, she said” type of arguments. The dashboard helps business processes to support and develop better ways of working.
To find about more about the dashboard and read a step-by-step installation process, please follow this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/workplace-analytics/tutorials/power-bi-bc