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Copper Contributor

Feb 18, 2020

Deploying Yammer to 10,000's of colleagues that don't have corporate email

Does anyone know if Microsoft are going to allow employees that don't have corporate email to be able to have accounts on Yammer? These frontline workers are mobile-first (in fact mobile-only), s...

Cian Allner

Silver Contributor

Feb 18, 2020

Hi, isn't this what Microsoft Kaizala is intended for, not the same as Yammer but you can sign up with just a phone number and the app, aimed at firstline workers and it's being integrated into https://products.office.com/en-gb/microsoft-teams/staff-scheduling-software going forward.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-kaizala-blog/microsoft-kaizala-rolls-out-to-office-365-customers-globally-and/ba-p/394298

Not a free option though but is included in Office 365 F1 along with various other plans.

Karl_Brooks

Copper Contributor

Feb 19, 2020

Cian Allner thanks, but my understanding of Kaizala (which is not extensive!) is that it's for companies that don't have any Firstline worker systems.

What I'm after is a social business tool which can dynamically create communities, and is self-managing in terms of joiners and leavers ... we have 10,000's of firstline workers (in 35 countries and many different brands) and the nature of the business means that there's a relatively high turnover.

I don't get integrating Kaizala with Teams, unless it's intended for small companies.