Alight to Enhance the Employee Experience with Launch of Alight Worklife on Microsoft Teams

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By Business Wire On Nov 18, 2024

Alight’s new Teams integration, developed in collaboration with Avanade, enables employers to deliver a seamless, connected employee experience

Alight, a leading cloud-based human capital and technology-enabled services provider and Avanade, a leading Microsoft expert, announced a collaboration to integrate Alight Worklife with Microsoft Teams. This novel integration empowers employers to further enhance their employee’s benefits experience by providing seamless access to benefits and wellbeing information directly within the Teams platform.

“By using the power of Microsoft Teams alongside Alight’s technology, employers will be better equipped to meet the needs of their people strategy with a more seamless, intuitive, and personalized experience that Alight is bringing to their clients.”

The application will be available to employers who utilize both Teams and Alight Worklife, beginning with the next release of the Alight Worklife platform. By integrating benefits access directly into employees’ daily software, the Alight Worklife integration for Teams will simplify benefits access, boost awareness, enable greater utilization, and enhance the overall employee experience and wellbeing.

“Today’s workforce expects benefits interactions to be simple, intuitive, and connected with their daily technology experiences,” said Josh Welch, EVP of product management at Alight. “By partnering with Avanade to deeply integrate the unique content and capabilities of Alight Worklife into Microsoft Teams, we are excited to help employers continue to transform how they can better engage employees in their benefits and enable a better return on those important investments.”

Alight partnered with Avanade to co-develop the seamless integration of the Alight Worklife experience into Teams. This collaboration provides secure user validation, personalized content and convenient account summaries for each employee. Through this integration, employees can access their benefits and wellbeing information within the familiar Teams environment, minimizing the need for multiple logins or switching between applications. The synergy leverages Avanade’s extensive expertise in Microsoft solutions to enable a robust and user-friendly experience, enhancing both productivity and engagement.

“Avanade is delighted to partner with Alight as they continue to transform the benefits industry,” said Katie Brown, General Manager US Midwest, Avanade. “By using the power of Microsoft Teams alongside Alight’s technology, employers will be better equipped to meet the needs of their people strategy with a more seamless, intuitive, and personalized experience that Alight is bringing to their clients.”

Alight Worklife brings a personalized and intuitive employee experience, purpose-built workflows and real-time insights directly into Teams through features like:

AI Personalized Recommendations: Providing employees with personalized information and to-dos related to their benefits and suggested actions.
Interactive Virtual Assistant (IVA): Alight’s integrated AI-based assistant offers 24/7 support, answering questions and providing benefits information to employees in their Teams experience.
Account Summary: A new Alight Worklife dashboard within Teams highlights essential benefits and account information at a glance.
Seamless Access: Secure, continuous authentication into Alight Worklife from Teams throughout the work day.

“People should have in-the-moment access to critical HR information while using their everyday work tools,” said Pete Daderko, Senior Director, Microsoft Teams Product Marketing. “We continue to see the value in bringing the right HR information to employees where they need it, including Microsoft Teams. The Alight Worklife integration brings key information to employees directly in Teams so they can take actions on key benefits and wellbeing related transactions provided by Alight Worklife.”

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