Emerging technologies like virtual and augmented reality are enabling organizations to have broader and more ambitious visions for the future. (Image: Led Gapline/Shutterstock)
COVID-19 has upended work in multiple ways, likely forever. Gone are the five-day-a-week in-person office settings that defined office culture for the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. But even if COVID hadn't happened, technology was changing at such a rapid pace that workplaces were bound to change anyway. Enter the metaverse – digitally enhanced worlds were businesses, consumers and workers can meet to interact with their artificial intelligence colleagues and friends.
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And despite being in its infancy, those at the top of the workplace food chain are already commenting on the importance of digital technology. According to the Accenture Tech Vision Report, 99% of global CHROs agree that emerging technologies like virtual and augmented reality are enabling their organization to have a broader and more ambitious vision for the future of workplaces.
Also, notes the report, the metaverse is creating new job openings and new employee categories with 75% of global CHROs saying the Metaverse will have a positive impact on their organizations and 47% believe it will be breakthrough or transformational.
One important takeaway, according to the report is that "Business leaders should start building new strategies today, exploring the potential of new products and services and training their executives on the technologies that will soon be foundational to their business. At a minimum, cloud will be essential, as will rebuilding applications with microservices architectures and APIs (Application Programming Interface) to be easily usable by others. The Metaverses that emerge will be defined by the services and platforms they encompass."
The disruptions that the digital world and metaverse are expected to create are already happening. Sixty-nine percent of global executives report quantum computing will have a transformational impact on their organizations. It's this environment that CHROs and workers are starting to rethink their roles and job descriptions for a new kind of workplace.
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