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Total Engagement – Gaming the Workplace

Metanomics : Dec 2, 2009 10:28am

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How great would your job be if you could do it in a videogame? That’s the premise behind Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read’s‘s new book ‘Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete‘. Their belief is that jobs will soon borrow heavily from game mechanics, making working environments better through increased communication and collaboration with easy to understand incentives.

With almost 100 million people playing at least one game a week in the United States, Reed and Reeves say it’s only a matter of time before jobs start looking a lot like their interactive, 3d counterparts. Sophisticated analysis and team building already play a major role in online games, with many employees using their gaming experiences to drive innovation at the workplace.

On December 2, 2009, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Byron Reeves about games, virtual worlds and business as it related to his book ‘Total Engagement’ . You can watch the show on this page or on iTunes.

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