Workplaces making jobs fun with video games a bad idea
Jory Buechner
Issue date: 3/24/08 Section: Opinion
Not only are offices using this new idea, but car dealerships are using software to keep track of their employees. This software is designed to tell an employee whether or not he or she is an efficient employee. Doesn't the fact that you're broke from not selling any cars tell you your efficiency rating?
According to the article, "There are a lot of big companies that are [catching] on to the success of these games and looking at them to figure out what they can use," [said] Seriosity's [Byron] Reeves, [Stanford University psychology professor]. "Companies are hiring people that come from a gaming environment. They're really into using the sensibilities of games in creating and designing work for this new generations."
Where is the gratification of work? Doesn't knowing that you accomplished something mean anything anymore? Or do we need to show off to the rest of the world our accomplishments?
Just because you're going from Point A to Point B in both a game and a job doesn't make them the same thing.
According to the article, "There are a lot of big companies that are [catching] on to the success of these games and looking at them to figure out what they can use," [said] Seriosity's [Byron] Reeves, [Stanford University psychology professor]. "Companies are hiring people that come from a gaming environment. They're really into using the sensibilities of games in creating and designing work for this new generations."
Where is the gratification of work? Doesn't knowing that you accomplished something mean anything anymore? Or do we need to show off to the rest of the world our accomplishments?
Just because you're going from Point A to Point B in both a game and a job doesn't make them the same thing.
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Jomes Weathertonne
posted 3/24/08 @ 7:13 AM PST
What a terribly written article. The author misses about a thousand complex points related to worker productivity and employee-employer relations. Yes, you can wait until your sales start to plummet, and use the information that your business is failing to notify you that your workers are underperforming. (Continued…)
Rick Thompson
posted 3/24/08 @ 7:54 AM PST
I concur, it read like he dashed off the story 2 hours before press time. Next time, do some research will ya?
Sig
posted 3/24/08 @ 8:59 AM PST
Really thoughtless and slapdash article. According to his own logic this guy needs to be fired for not doing his job right.
J Star
posted 3/24/08 @ 10:21 AM PST
This is the first article I have read online that is less thought out and intelligent than the comments following it. I agree with SIG's comment, by your own standards you should be awarded with a pink slip. (Continued…)
Charles Hornbeck
posted 3/24/08 @ 10:46 AM PST
Inexperienced pimply hyperbole. You are fired Buechner.
Kyle H
posted 3/24/08 @ 3:49 PM PST
Happy employees make productive employees.
If you enjoy where you work you will do the best job you can for them.
Too bad it's taken companies this long to figure it out. (Continued…)
Jory Buechner
posted 4/07/08 @ 2:54 PM PST
First off I thought the article was going to run with the link to the original story on 1up. http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166471
And in my original article I explained what Serios were. (Continued…)
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