Intranet for HR: Using a Modern Intranet to Support the Employee Lifecycle

This webinar is primarily a live demo, showcasing practical examples of how HR teams use Omnia — the top-rated employee experience platform for Microsoft 365 — to streamline onboarding, support development, simplify employee services, and connect the workforce. 

✔ Employee Onboarding: Make new hires feel welcomed and productive faster.

✔ Skills Development: Provide structured learning resources to support long-term growth.

✔ Knowledge Sharing: Enable people to share insights and strengthen collective expertise.

✔ Employee Services: Offer quick, self-service access to HR tools, policies, and forms.

✔ Recognition & Culture: Highlight people and achievements to drive engagement.

✔ Career Opportunities: Showcase internal roles and development paths. 

✔ Employee Voice: Capture feedback and sentiment to guide continuous improvement.

✔ Findability: Use AI-powered search to ensure easy access to HR resources.

✔ HR Communication: Create and publish consistent, high-quality HR content with ease. 

A brief Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Whether you're launching a new intranet or improving an existing solution, this session offers clear, actionable guidance for optimizing an intranet to support the employee lifecycle, drive employee engagement, and improve the overall employee experience.

This webinar is designed for HR teams and professionals, as well as intranet stakeholders interested in supporting the employee lifecycle with a modern, Microsoft-based intranet.

✔ The webinar is free and conducted in English.

✔ You can join via web browser or mobile app.

✔ Registrations from private email addresses (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.) are not accepted.

Can’t make it on the scheduled tome? Sign up anyway and we’ll send you the presentation and a recording afterward.

An HR intranet is a centralized digital platform where employees can access HR communication, services, and resources. It brings together onboarding materials, learning content, policies, forms, benefits information, and career opportunities in one easy-to-navigate location. By acting as the hub for HR processes and updates, an HR intranet improves employee experience, strengthens employee engagement, and ensures that HR information is always accessible, accurate, and consistent across the organization.

A modern intranet supports the employee lifecycle by providing structured experiences from preboarding and onboarding all the way through development, internal mobility, and offboarding. It gives employees clear access to information, learning resources, HR services, and career opportunities at every stage. It also strengthens engagement through recognition features, feedback channels, and personalized communication. By centralizing resources and services, the intranet helps HR deliver a consistent, connected, and high-quality employee experience throughout the entire lifecycle.

An Employee Experience Platform (EXP) is a digital environment that brings together communication, collaboration, HR services, and personalized tools to support employees in their daily work. It helps organizations provide consistent information, streamline processes, and improve the overall employee experience. When built on a modern intranet for HR, an EXP becomes the foundation for onboarding, learning, engagement, and self-service, giving employees a single place to stay informed, supported, and connected.

Employee engagement software helps organizations understand, motivate, and involve employees through tools such as recognition features, surveys, feedback channels, learning modules, and communication tools. A modern intranet functions as employee engagement software by offering these capabilities in one central platform. It enables two-way communication, reinforces company culture, supports internal communities, and gives employees easy access to the resources they need to feel informed, valued, and involved in the organization.

A modern intranet can integrate with HR systems through APIs, secure data feeds, widgets, and deep links that surface HR information directly inside the intranet. This makes it possible to display employee data, organization charts, profiles, absences, learning assignments, or job postings without duplicating data. The HR system remains the system of record, while the intranet becomes the user-friendly entry point for employees. This creates a seamless experience and reduces the need to move between disconnected systems.

Learning resources from LMS platforms, SharePoint libraries, Teams channels, and other systems can be surfaced in the intranet through integrations, embedded content, and curated learning pages. This gives employees a unified view of training materials, courses, and development tools, regardless of where they originate. By consolidating scattered learning content into one entry point, the intranet makes it easier for employees to find relevant training and for HR to support long-term skills development.

An employee self-service portal can be created in the intranet by assembling all HR tools, policies, forms, and workflows into a single, intuitive hub. This may include areas for updating personal details, reporting absences, requesting support, accessing benefits information, and reviewing HR policies. By centralizing self-service tasks, the intranet reduces administrative work for HR teams and improves the employee experience by making HR services simple, fast, and accessible from any device.

AI-powered search improves findability by understanding the intent behind an employee’s question and delivering the most relevant HR content, such as policies, onboarding information, benefits details, or how-to guides. It can also suggest related resources, highlight popular documents, and surface content based on role or location. This ensures employees can quickly find the information they need without navigating through multiple pages or systems, improving satisfaction and reducing support requests.