I knew a guy that worked at a company that had something like that. You had to walk your snes-style sprite around the virtual office. If you walked up to someone’s avatar you could start a meeting. You could move your guy around to indicate you were at lunch or working or whatever.
Seems extremely wasteful to me but a lot of people there liked it.
You say wasteful, I’d think very efficient. If it’s just enough fun to get everyone in an office to engage and use it, a manager now has an accurate tool to check who is where and what they’re doing. Plus if it actually makes anyone actually have a little fun with it and have a better day, bonus wins.
Millions of dollars spent to replace status messages and what slack/teams already do. There’s no mechanism to keep it in sync with reality so it’s not even especially accurate.
I knew a guy that worked at a company that had something like that. You had to walk your snes-style sprite around the virtual office. If you walked up to someone’s avatar you could start a meeting. You could move your guy around to indicate you were at lunch or working or whatever.
Seems extremely wasteful to me but a lot of people there liked it.
You say wasteful, I’d think very efficient. If it’s just enough fun to get everyone in an office to engage and use it, a manager now has an accurate tool to check who is where and what they’re doing. Plus if it actually makes anyone actually have a little fun with it and have a better day, bonus wins.
Millions of dollars spent to replace status messages and what slack/teams already do. There’s no mechanism to keep it in sync with reality so it’s not even especially accurate.
A real stretch to call that efficient.
So you’re saying we need to automate the avatar and use surveillance to do so! And maybe even AI why not
can we work NFTs and crypto into this?
That’s how you pay your employees