Migration
Moving from Microsoft Viva Glint to CultureMonkey without losing your survey history
Why teams move off Microsoft Viva Glint
Cost is the trigger, not the product
Reviewers describe it as expensive, most sharply at smaller organizations. Glint’s automated reporting is a genuine strength, and nothing on this page claims to beat what it does for a small team.
Capterra · 25 reviewsSupport that arrives as a document
One admin put it plainly: raise a ticket and you get a big document to read and figure out yourself, rather than an answer to the question you actually asked.
From a Glint adminNot available on the GCC High cloud
Microsoft documents Viva Glint as available for commercial and Government Community Cloud tenants, but not for GCC High. The supported route is inviting those users into a commercial tenant as guests.
Microsoft Learn- Your question wording, typed back in
- Survey cadence and reminder schedule
- Segments and reporting cuts
- eNPS, standard and custom variants
- Raw responses from cycles where export was off
- Glint's benchmark comparison pool
- Report generation pushed to each manager
- A separate, higher floor for verbatim comments
- Comments as data a new platform can load
- Your old score as a like-for-like number
What comes with you, and what does not
- Your question wording, drivers, cadence and segments all come across. They are re-created rather than imported, so someone types them in, but the program you designed in Glint is the program you keep running afterwards.
- What does not travel is anything you never exported in time. Raw responses from a cycle where the export setting was off cannot be retrieved at all, and Microsoft states that consequence directly rather than leaving you to find it.
- Two things change shape rather than disappear, and both matter. Report generation pushed to each manager becomes a dashboard that opens itself, and what was a separate, higher floor for verbatim comments becomes one floor for everything.
Will your engagement score change
- Different suppression floors give different group scores from identical responses. Glint reports rated items at five by default and verbatim comments at ten or more. Change the floor and some groups appear while others vanish from the report.
- The scale changes, so the arithmetic changes before opinion does. CultureMonkey holds ratings on 1 to 5 and displays them on 0 to 10 by default, so identical sentiment reads back to your leadership as a different number.
- Past results stay attached to the org structure as it stood then. The hierarchy is captured as a snapshot tied to that survey, so a reorg does not rewrite history. That is as far as the documentation goes.
The Help Center’s own example: three drivers, 500 rating answers.
What replaces Glint’s automated reports
- Glint generates a report for each manager, and that deserves naming first. A manager at a thirteen-thousand-associate company credits it with keeping a small team out of the critical path. The replacement is a different model, not an absent one.
- Every manager gets their own dashboard the moment results are released. There is no admin distribution step at all, which removes the chasing rather than automating it, and admins can batch-generate one PDF per manager on top of that.
- No scheduled or recurring report delivery exists, and saying otherwise would fail fast. The only documented automation is reminders. If a document has to reach an inbox on a fixed date, an admin runs the batch export.
Getting your data out of Glint
- The raw export is on by default and downloads straight to your device. That is better than Culture Amp and materially better than Peakon, both of which route raw data through a request or an API rather than a button.
- The trap is that the setting is decided per cycle, before launch. Once a cycle is live the choice cannot be changed for that cycle, and closed cycles permanently conform to whatever was set the day they launched.
- So the audit covers every historical cycle, and it happens now. Not in the final month. A program switched on today can still hold older cycles whose raw responses nobody will ever be able to get out.
What you keep, what changes
- You can run more than one custom eNPS question, alongside the standard one. Candidate experience NPS is a documented use case. Two limits: the standard eNPS is one per survey, and custom wording is provisioned rather than typed.
- Manager visibility controls are extensive but set account-wide. Fourteen documented controls cover free text, heatmaps, exports, benchmark cards and more. All are set by the Account Admin, and there is no per-manager override.
- Glint is stricter on verbatim comments, and that is conceded here. It applies a separate, higher floor to write-in comments. CultureMonkey applies one floor to every score type and to the comment list, with nothing extra for free text.
Who can see what, and from when
Three separate minimums exist
Conflating them causes real confusion. Three reportees before manager access can be switched on. Three responses is the floor for an anonymous survey. Five is the manager-dashboard card default.
The survey floor of three is hard
It cannot be set lower. The dashboard default of five can be raised but never dropped below three, and it changes by contacting your account manager rather than in a settings screen.
Glint is stricter on write-in comments
Its default statement reports comments verbatim once at least ten people answer a question. Every CultureMonkey score type and the comment list obey the same floor.
What changes when you need help
AÂ dedicated Customer Success Manager
Below that band, onboarding runs as a group program. Which band you are in decides what support looks like.
Onboarding changes shape again
It becomes dedicated, with white-glove support and a People Science deep-dive on your own results rather than a guided walkthrough of the product.
The counter to a document rather than an answer
It is a named person carrying your account context, not a faster queue. Ask for the name and the band on your first call.
The retention line
Connect the journey to the number the board asks about: what early attrition and regretted exits cost, and what changed once you fixed the causes.
One consistent journey
The same listening standard from day one to exit, across every team and location, rather than a patchwork of forms.
The early signal
Day-30 flags and exit reasons for your own teams, delivered while follow-up can still change the outcome.
Zero chasing
Trigger rules replace the spreadsheet of joining dates. Joiners, milestones and leavers are surveyed without a single manual send.
Who signs this off, and what they ask
- A migration is signed off by four desks, each asking something different. The CHRO wants the board line protected, the Head of People wants one consistent standard, the HRBP wants the early signal, People Ops wants the chasing gone.
- The question that actually stalls a Glint migration is the reporting one. Whoever relies on reports reaching managers without them asking needs to see the replacement working. That is a demo request, not a document request.
- Ask for a reference who moved from Glint, not from anywhere. A generic switching story does not answer the reporting question.
Moving off Microsoft Viva Glint
The migration
Sourced to Microsoft’s own documentation and to published reviews.
What does migrating off Microsoft Viva Glint actually involve?
What is Microsoft Viva Glint?
Can you export your data from Microsoft Viva Glint?
Is Glint being discontinued?
How long is Glint data kept after you cancel?
Will our engagement scores still be comparable?
What replaces Glint's automatic manager reports?
Is Glint the same as LinkedIn Glint?
Bring your Glint reports to a working session.
We will go through what carries across, what your managers see on day one, and which steps an admin owns once the dashboards are live.
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