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Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements

Why it matters: Retirement / removal — plan migration

From Microsoft's description: “Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.”

Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired. Users will be able to select the same Focus Area across multiple cycles. The Focus Area Overview report will be filterable to groups of interest (e.g. managers only). Draft/deleted Focus Areas will no longer be included in Focus Area calculations.

How this was classified (derived by the tracker — not Microsoft's label)
  • Possible retiring · 55% confidence · matched removes "with survey cycles and goal periods"
    Microsoft Viva: Focus Area simplification and enhancements Beginning with this feature release, Focus Areas will be associated with survey cycles and goal periods will be retired.
Target January CY2026Cloud WorldwidePlatform WebSource last updated 2026-01-28

Affected: Microsoft Viva

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