This is being offered in collaboration with Joye, a Singapore-based wellbeing technology company. Microsoft Teams administrators can easily turn Joye on for the organisation with a single click from the Teams’ app store. Joye analyses work patterns in Microsoft Teams and send suggestions. This is empowering every employee in the hybrid workplace – especially when they are lonely, overworked and stressed said Sanjeev Magotra, Founder and CEO of Joye. For example, Joye’s Daily Brew empowers users to measure and manage their daily well-being. The user can speak, write, or follow a guided reflection in a safe and anonymised space. Joye’s AI is trained to recognise the user’s unique situation and then assist them with joy-level mood analytics, behavioural coaching, and short podcasts. Joye’s Stress Busters are two-minute breathing techniques to streamline the mind at that critical time when Joye senses that there is a high probability that stress may be affecting the user’s mental fitness and decision-making. “Microsoft Teams users can enjoy options to build and cement their habit of mental fitness and personal well-being, as they use the Teams platform for events, employee experiences, communications, and collaboration in a secure way,” said Joanna Lim, Business Group lead, Modern Work & Security, Microsoft Singapore. Joye does not share individual data with the employer or anyone else, claims the firm. To help corporations develop data-driven wellbeing programmes, Joye can consolidate the anonymised data as a management dashboard of the daily emotional health of the organisation. Organisations can subscribe to Joye’s enterprise subscription licence. With studies finding that mental wellbeing has a significant impact of 35 per cent on productivity, and inspired by how ‘10,000 steps’ revolutionised physical fitness a decade ago, Joye weaves mental wellbeing into daily work-life to help users build and sustain a mental fitness habit.
Month: January 2022
Microsoft teams up with mental wellness startup
Joye, a Singapore-based mental wellness startup, has partnered with Microsoft. As part of the team-up, Microsoft Teams will add Joye’s well-being products to its platform in a bid to address growing concerns about mental health and productivity. Through the Microsoft Teams app store, administrators can add features such as Stress Busters, a two-minute breathing exercise that kicks in when Joye detects stress, and Daily Brew, an AI-powered reflection tool that employees can use to express themselves. Organizations will be able to offer Joye’s services for free to 100 users. Individuals can also try out the startup’s services for 30 days if their Microsoft Teams admin has enabled the platform’s app store for their workplace, Sanjeev Magotra, founder and CEO of Joye, told Tech in Asia. “Microsoft Teams users can enjoy options to build and cement their habit of mental fitness and personal well-being, as they use the Teams platform for events, employee experiences, communications, and collaboration in a secure way,” said Joanna Lim, business group lead for modern work and security at Microsoft Singapore. In a survey by mental wellness startup Ginger released last year, 92% of CEOs said that the pandemic pushed their firms to increase their focus on mental health. Meanwhile, 29% of employees said that productivity has taken a hit due to stress related to Covid-19. “Joye analyzes your work patterns in Microsoft Teams with extreme privacy and delivers timely suggestions to measure and manage your well-being when you may need it the most. This is empowering every employee in the hybrid workplace – especially when they are lonely, overworked, and stressed,” Magotra said in a statement.
