October brings clearer program setup and broader support for organizational-data integration, along with new private-preview opportunities for reporting and Copilot experiences. This edition covers what is available now and gives you an early look at administration, exports, insights, and survey management capabilities planned for the months ahead.
New on your Viva Glint platform
This section highlights new capabilities now available on your Viva Glint platform this month.
Program setup: Clearer required-field indicators. Required fields throughout program setup now have visual indicators, making it easy to tell which fields are optional and which are required. Missed or skipped required fields will also be clearly identified. There have not been any changes to which fields are required and which are optional. Viva Glint Questions setup | Microsoft Learn
Viva Glint integration with Microsoft 365 Organizational Data Service is rolling out to General Availability (GA) and will be available to all customers by the end of October. With GA, we are expanding support to a broader range of customer environments, including organizations with multiple Glint instances, MTO/CTS policies, and Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud Moderate (GCC Moderate).The GA release also introduces several new capabilities, including email notifications, multiple connectors to support phased data ingestion, and Microsoft Purview integration for audit events, making it easier for organizations to manage, monitor, and govern their employee data integration.
Coming soon to Viva Glint
The following section offers an early look at capabilities coming to Glint in upcoming releases.
Multi-attribute report exports for more roles | Private preview in October. Managers, leaders, analysts, and HR business partners in the private preview can export filtered, grouped, cross-dimensional report data for analysis outside Viva Glint. The update expands access beyond administrators and supports more flexible analysis while keeping permissions under administrative control. Viva Glint Multi-Attribute Export – Private Preview Sign-Up form
Copilot Results Summarization | Private preview in early November. Results Summarization makes it easier for your managers and leaders to understand, explore, root cause and act on their Viva Glint results and comments. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience within Viva Glint brings together scores, benchmarks, changes, response rates, drivers, and comment themes for demographic breakdowns and segmented populations in one grounded conversation, so they can ask questions, spot patterns, make comparisons and dig deeper into your results. Join the private preview and help shape the experience through feedback sessions. Sign up here
Continuous Engagement self-service administration | Private preview in November. Following additional engineering work, the administration update previously targeted for October is now planned for November. Existing private-preview customers will be able to map eligible workplace metrics to survey questions through a guided setup flow, reducing manual coordination and giving administrators more control over the context managers see with survey results.
Comments export with attributes | Private preview planned for November. Private-preview participants will be able to export comments to Excel with selected respondent attributes, preserving the report’s filters and groupings. This will enable deeper analysis of comment themes across employee groups outside Viva Glint, while respecting users’ reporting permissions and applicable confidentiality safeguards.
Copilot Highlights with workplace-metric context | Preview in December. Following updated development sequencing, this capability is now targeting December. When Continuous Engagement preview is enabled, Copilot Highlights will add selective workplace-metric callouts when an eligible behavioral signal provides useful context for a survey strength or opportunity, helping leaders identify where deeper investigation may be useful.
Survey administration: Bulk removal of participants | Generally available in December. Building on the existing ability to remove participants in groups of 25, administrators will be able to remove closed surveys with no limit using a file upload When users are removed, their survey response will be permanently deleted. Removal events will also be recorded in audit logs, helping teams correct survey populations without relying on support.
See our public roadmap for more feature updates.
New Thought Leadership
The Next Generation of Employee Listening Research Report | Available October 28. Organizations have more ways than ever to hear from employees, but more channels don't automatically lead to better decisions. Our latest research showed that 74% of enterprise listening leaders reported expanding their listening channels, yet only 1 in 3 rated their systems as strong at influencing business decisions and connecting listening data to meaningful outcomes. The report explores how listening teams can move from managing listening activity to building a right-fit system around what the organization needs to understand. The report will be the first release on Glint Labs, a new home for research, frameworks, and resources from the Microsoft People Science team. Look for the launch announcement on Viva Community on October 28.
EECC session details
In this recent EECC session, we previewed Results Summarization in Viva Glint Copilot Chat, an updated experience that brings survey scores and comment analysis together in a conversational interface. Customers saw how managers and leaders can ask plain-language questions about response rates, strengths, opportunities, trends, benchmarks, demographic differences, and comments, without first building reports or configuring filters.
The session included a live product demonstration, an overview of the people-science research and evaluation shaping the experience, and details about the private preview. Participants discussed organizational guidance for AI-supported interpretation and action taking, administrative controls, licensing, confidentiality, presentation templates, language support, and practical preview limitations.
Key takeaways from the discussion included:
- Results Summarization is the first milestone in a broader roadmap that moves from understanding survey findings to drafting, managing, and following up on manager action plans.
- The preview combines quantitative scores with comment summarization and can dynamically apply filters to answer questions about trends, benchmarks, demographics, and differences between employee groups.
- People-science guidance is built into the experience to promote accurate, relevant, clear, and calibrated interpretations, including appropriate context for group size, score changes, benchmarks, and correlation versus causation.
- Existing Viva Glint permissions, confidentiality thresholds, and suppression rules continue to apply; Copilot receives only aggregated results that have passed those protections.
- Customers emphasized the need for organization-specific guidance, approved action resources, company templates, and more granular administrative controls. These needs are being explored as part of the manager action-taking roadmap.
- The private preview is planned for participating customers beginning in November, with a recommended small-group rollout and a 30-minute feedback session for selected organizations. General availability is targeted for early next year.
- The capability supports the languages available in Viva Glint and currently works with the last two closed surveys for ad hoc and recurring programs. During preview, users should work from the Executive Summary report, select benchmarks in the report, use explicit prompts, and begin a new chat when context becomes too complex.
If you are not yet a member of the Employee Experience Customer Connection (EECC) but would like to participate in upcoming sessions and gain access to other engaging and valuable Glint and Pulse customer activities, please sign up using the EECC opt-in form.
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