Modern Employee Experience on Microsoft 365
Your people are your greatest asset. Is your digital workplace proving it?
When the digital experience is frustrating – disconnected tools, buried information, culture that never reaches the frontline – employees disengage. Antares helps you build a workpalce where your people feel connected, capable, and genuinely supported every single day.
21%
of employees globally are engaged at work – the lowest since the pandemic.
Gallup, state of the Global Workplace 2025
$438B
lost in global productivity in 2024 due to disengagement.
Gallup, state of the Global Workplace 2025
23%
productivity increase in organisations with highly engaged workforces.
Gallup, state of the Global Workplace 2025
The challenge of Employee Experience in Microsoft 365 Environments
When work is hard to navigate, your best people look for the door.
Think about the daily experience of someone joining your organisation today. They receive a laptop, a set of logins, and — if they’re lucky — an email with links to a dozen different systems they’re expected to piece together into a productive working life.
They can’t find last month’s policy update. They’re not sure whether the Teams channel or the SharePoint folder is the source of truth. Leadership messages appear on three different platforms, none of which reach the 80% of staff who are away from a desk.
Three months in, they’re not disengaged because of the role. They’re disengaged because the environment is exhausting.
The good news? The technology to change this already exists inside your Microsoft 365 subscription. It just needs to be architected, connected, and adopted properly. That’s exactly what Antares does.
Information overload without clarity
When content is scattered across SharePoint sites, Teams channels, email threads, and shared drives, finding anything becomes a job in itself. Employees spend valuable hours searching rather than doing.
Disconnected tools, disconnected people
Most organisations have more digital tools than they need — and fewer that actually talk to each other. The result is context-switching, duplicate effort, and a workforce that feels like a loose collection of individuals rather than a cohesive team.
Culture that doesn’t reach the frontline
When your intranet is a static page with an HR form and a photo of the CEO, your hybrid and deskless workforce has no digital home. Recognition, culture, and leadership communication simply don’t land for the people who need them most.
Manual processes draining energy
Repetitive email-driven approvals, paper-based forms, and fragmented workflows eat into the hours your people should be spending on meaningful work — and quietly erode their sense of purpose and value.
A workplace where your people feel connected, capable, and seen.
Imagine a new starter who logs in on day one to a personalised experience that surfaces exactly what they need. Imagine a frontline worker who never misses a critical update. Imagine a culture that actually travels — to every location, every shift, every screen.
51% Reduction in staff turnover
Organisations with highly engaged workforces see dramatically lower attrition — reducing the enormous cost of recruiting and onboarding new talent.
Gallup, 2024 Employee Engagement Research
Informed
Everyone has access to the right information, at the right time, without having to search for it or ask three colleagues.
124% increase in news readership
After modernising their intranet with Antares, NRMA saw a 124% increase in internal news readership — alongside a dramatic uplift in staff knowledge and two-way engagement across their 3,000-person workforce.
Antares × NRMA Case Study
Connected
People can collaborate, communicate, and contribute regardless of where or how they work — office, field, or home.
Empowered
Individuals have the tools, the clarity, and the AI assistance to work at their best every single day.
Recognised
Culture, belonging, and contribution are visible and celebrated — not buried in email threads or invisible to leadership.
We don’t just implement software.
We design experiences people use.
Technology is only part of the answer. The other part is understanding how your people actually work, what gets in their way, and what would make their day genuinely better. That’s why every Antares engagement starts with listening — before a single SharePoint page is built.
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Discover & Design — Understanding what your people actually need
We run structured discovery workshops across your organisation — from executives and HR leaders to team leads and frontline staff. We map your current digital landscape, identify friction points, and define the experience principles that will guide every decision. You won’t get a generic template. You’ll get a blueprint built around your people.
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Build & Configure — Bringing the experience to life on Microsoft 365
With a clear design in hand, our consultants build your solution using the Microsoft platform you already own. This might mean a fully branded #Space intranet on SharePoint, a governed Teams environment with Tellus, Power Platform workflows replacing paper processes, or a Viva suite rollout. We build with adoption in mind from day one — not as an afterthought.
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Adopt & Enable — Making sure your people actually use it
The most common reason digital workplace projects fail isn’t technical — it’s adoption. We partner with your internal champions, run targeted training, create role-specific guides, and design communication campaigns that build excitement rather than anxiety. We’ve helped organisations cut intranet onboarding time in half, and seen adoption rates that would make a marketing team proud.
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Evolve & Improve — Keeping the experience fresh as you grow
A great employee experience isn’t a one-time project — it’s an ongoing commitment. Our managed services team monitors usage, delivers enhancements, introduces new Microsoft capabilities as they release, and ensures your digital workplace stays relevant as your organisation evolves. We’re in it for the long haul.
An honest partner who cares more about your outcome than their invoice
There’s no shortage of Microsoft partners in Australia. What separates Antares is something harder to certify: a genuine commitment to doing the right thing by our clients, even when that means saying something they don’t want to hear.
Why Antares
Deep Microsoft Expertise
Antares is a Microsoft Solutions Partner with 12 Specialisations across 6 Solution Partner areas — including Modern Work. Our consultants hold senior Microsoft certifications and work exclusively on Microsoft technology. No generalists. No guesswork.
Human-centred delivery
We don’t start with the technology — we start with your people. Every engagement begins with discovery: understanding your culture, your pain points, and the behaviours you want to encourage before a single SharePoint page is built.
Proven at scale, across sectors
From government agencies and large enterprises like NRMA to universities and not-for-profits, we’ve delivered complex modern workplace programmes in demanding, highly regulated environments. We’ve seen what works — and what gets abandoned after six months.
Proprietary IP that accelerates delivery
Our #Space intranet accelerator and Tellus Teams governance product mean you benefit from years of accumulated best practice — deployed faster, at lower risk, and at better value than a build from scratch every time.
Seen it. Done it. Delivered it.
Transforming employee experience for a 3,000-person, largely deskless workforce
With more than 80% of its people away from a desk — working roadside, in holiday parks, and across EV charging networks — the NRMA needed an employee experience that could genuinely reach everyone. Their existing classic SharePoint intranet had become a source of distrust: outdated content, poor governance, and an experience so confusing that staff had simply stopped using it.
Antares modernised the NRMA’s intranet on SharePoint Online, integrating Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections with a mobile-first design purpose-built for frontline engagement. Human-centric design workshops, Power Automate content governance, custom SPFX components, and Viva Engage integration delivered a fundamentally new experience.
“At NRMA, our revamped intranet is one of our key initiatives transforming the employee experience. It’s not just a platform — it’s a tool that enhances collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and fosters a culture of shared purpose.”
Jo Cullen, General Manager People Experience — The NRMA
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From first conversation to a thriving digital workplace
Your people deserve a digital workplace that works as had as they do.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or rescuing a project that lost its way, Antares will give you an honest view of what’s possible — and what to prioritise first. No jargon. No overselling. No templates dressed up as strategy.