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The abrupt transition to remote work that has occurred over the past few years has caused Microsoft Teams to become an indispensable application for many companies. As such, it is absolutely imperative to make sure that Teams users have a good experience, particularly with regard to call quality. Herein lies the problem. Although Microsoft has provided some rudimentary tools that can be used for user experience monitoring, those integrated tools are inadequate for enterprise use.

Microsoft Teams has become a critical communication and collaboration tool for thousands of enterprises around the world. Teams is keeping today’s hybrid workforce connected and productive through video and voice calls, chat and connectivity to other Microsoft 365 applications like Outlook and SharePoint.

A Microsoft Teams rooms strategy might seem like more effort than it’s worth on the surface, but you’d be surprised how much impact it can make. With many businesses now mixing in-person and remote Teams meeting participation, planning and optimizing how it works just makes sense.

Last week we launched a number of features across the PagerDuty Operations Cloud portfolio to help teams minimize downtime and protect customer experience. One of the areas where PagerDuty continues to invest is collaboration and communication during incident response to ensure that all impacted stakeholders across the business are updated in real-time.

Employee engagement is the key to boosting IT workplace productivity in an organization. But bad digital employee experience (DEX) can result in disengagement, hurting your company’s net income and increasing employee turnover. According to Gallup’s 2022 Workplace report, disengaged employees cost the global economy a whopping $7.8 trillion loss in productivity. For US companies, the cost is around $350 billion for a single year.