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Use the Network page in the Viva Insights app in Teams and web to understand who you collaborate with most and when.

Find the Network page from your Teamwork tab:

  • Under the Build better relationships section, in the Time spent collaborating with others card.

  • Select View my network.test

The Network consists of two sections: Collaborators and Communication habits.

If you hold a meeting or exchange email, chats, or calls with coworkers, Viva Insights considers those coworkers collaborators.

Types of collaborators 

Important collaborators – Coworkers you've marked as important in Viva Insights. Marking people as important (or "pinning" them) helps you find them quickly on your collaboration map. We discuss pinning contacts a little later in this article.

Active collaborators – Coworkers you've collaborated with in the past four weeks.

Collaboration map

The Collaborators section arranges your active collaborators in a three-ring map view—from Most frequent to Least frequent collaboration time. Viva Insights estimates total collaboration time based on the number of hours and minutes you've spent collaborating with a contact, both during and outside of your working hours, over the past four weeks. 

If you want more information about how much time you’re spending with a contact, select their profile image. The tooltip shows you your total collaboration time with that contact, and then breaks down collaboration time by each communication channel—emails, meetings, and chats and calls.

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Edit your important people list

Add

You can add someone to your important people list:

  • At the top of your Network page, you might notice they're a suggested contact. To add them to your important list, select the Pin button.test

  • If the person you want to pin isn't suggested, use the search bar just above your collaborator map. Type in their name, and then select Pin.

After you mark a contact as important, and if they're also an active collaborator, they'll show up in your map with a star next to their name. If you search for them in the Collaborators section, they'll show as pinned.

Remove

To remove someone from your important people list, select the Unpin icon, which looks like a star on the collaboration map. To quickly find a contact, use the search bar.

Tips: Here are a couple tips to keep your network up to date:

  • Keep adding top collaborators to your important people list and remove some if you need to. Make sure your list reflects who you spend time working with.

  • Make time for networking. Making time to foster relationships and grow your network has proven to contribute to professional advancement.

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