Sentiment Analysis for Yammer Posts
A common customer scenario is assessing employee sentiment and driving engagement. Many companies (including Microsoft) regularly employ formal polls and surveys to ask employees for their feedback and ideas for continued improvement.
As more companies embrace Yammer for employee engagement and continuous bi-directional communications, customers have been asking for ways to dynamically report on and respond to both positive and negative comments.
This post summarizes some work that we recently completed to build out such a demonstration for the worldwide Microsoft Technology Centers to leverage with our customer engagements. The solution was built with no custom code and includes …
A “CEO Connection” Yammer group for employees to connect directly with the CEO and participate in town hall live events.
Microsoft Flow to monitor new posts to the “CEO Connection” Yammer group and assess the sentiment of the post leveraging Azure Cognitive Services.
All results are logged via Flow to a SharePoint list for auditing and then provide the ability to perform historical reporting and trend analysis.
If a post is determined to be “negative” (based on the sentiment analysis score assigned), an email notification is sent to the appropriate people to make sure someone reviews and follows up on the employee’s comments, questions, and concerns.
A Power BI report was created to visualize the average sentiment of posts per day reading the results logged to the SharePoint list. This report has been embedded in an HR department communication site for others to view using the Power BI web part.
Hope this helps. This entire solution was designed, built, and tested in a couple of hours — all with no custom code. Happy New Year!
