Metaverse Employment Frenzy: 44% Is Willing to Work in the Metaverse

Metaverse Employment or a vague idea of VR-powered remote work is becoming a talk amongst employers and employees. According to a recent report from Lenovo titled “Enterprise Metaverse: Employees Are Ready, Can Organizations Deliver?”, it is found that “close to half of the employees (44%) are willing to work in the metaverse and believe that it can deliver benefits like productivity to the workplace”. While even Walmart is trying to take its shot at the metaverse e-commerce business (Read: Walmart Metaverse: Two Patent Applications Reveal A Questionable Digital Transformation), the idea of metaverse employment seems to be a prominent issue.

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What do we mean when we say “Metaverse Employment”?

It is mostly like an “enterprise metaverse” where companies use the digital universe to create a lifelike work environment for their employees and their interaction, which, in theory, should provide them with a better environment to communicate and do their job rather than an unmonitored work-from-home set up. However, as metaverse is still a very new concept, there are certain problems with applying a VR-powered work environment.

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What are the concerns involving Metaverse Employment?

The concerns about the equipment are one thing, maybe all the computing power or VR sets are things that the employees do not want to spend money on. But the biggest concern of them all is that the employers do not think that the employees are as ready as they claim to be. The same goes for the inverse, the employees also think that their employers are not well equipped to transition to working in the metaverse or providing a metaverse employment scheme. The same Lenovo report also states that “43% of employees do not think that their employers have the knowledge or expertise to enable them to work in the metaverse.”

While it is a new piece of technology, metaverse is still a very immature platform to apply to everything. Sure, we can always use IT and support the organizations with the help that it provides, however, the business solutions should be simple and scalable solutions. If a standard work-from-home environment works quite well, then, forcing a metaverse change would be a risky ambition.

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Metaverse is new, and we are also trying to explore possibilities within Web 3.0. While doing that, my honest opinion is to not hurt the existing system and ensure a smooth transition rather than jumping to every technology trend. Every new innovation will have its shining moment and a place where it will be most useful, it is better to explore and suit the technology into the business rather than forcing your business to the imaginary technology trend-box. However, metaverse news is quite exciting and it is good to see that even traditional companies are taking steps towards it.