Making work more like a video game: Gamification technology helps managers and staff
Making work more like a video game: Gamification technology helps managers and staff
Making work more like a video game: Gamification technology helps managers and staff
By Scott Matteweson
November 06, 2019
Summary
Gamification technology is an immersive experience that seeks to use the fun elements of video gaming in business settings for better productivity, employee achievement, and motivation.
Omri Hayner: Gamification includes technology and best practices that help organizations meet goals by engaging employees and imparting knowledge and training in an interesting, creative way.
By applying video game mechanics in a non-game context, gamification drives up learning by creating friendly competition and collaboration among employees and teams, boosting knowledge and skills, and improving the quality of service they provide.
Gamification technology can be used at home, in the gym, in the workplace, or anywhere employees may be located-an especially useful aspect given today's hybrid working environment.
Gamification helps achieve team KPIs such as increasing productivity, maximizing efficiency, enhancing sales and driving collaboration between employees and teams, as well as to meet individual career goals.
Gamification technology provides a centralized platform for employees to interact, learn, collaborate, and be recognized, no matter where they work and at any time and also provides knowledge visibility to supervisors and trainers.
It expands employee skill sets and knowledge levels while making work much more interesting.
Omri Hayner: Gamification benefits the individual employee, employee's team and the business as a whole.
Gamification technology allows employees to learn and hone a skill set, collaborate with their team members in an engaging and efficient way or even demonstrate value or talent to be considered for a different position in the company.
On a daily basis, employees are able to be more socially engaged with one another and stimulated within their current roles, which is more important than ever in today's remote and hybrid working environments.
Reference
Matteson, S. (2020, November 06). Making work more like a video game: Gamification technology helps managers and staff. Retrieved November 09, 2020, from https://www.techrepublic.com/article/making-work-more-like-a-video-game-gamification-technology-helps-managers-and-staff/