“Notably our newer workers who’re at entry-level roles, they actually love the gamification facet of issues. They’ve duties, they get incentives and might win prizes.”
Accenture started dabbling within the metaverse as an rising know-how earlier than the pandemic, and constructed a program to onboard employees just about throughout the waves of lockdowns by sending 60,000 digital actuality headsets to workers globally.
“Phishing Pier” in Accenture’s metaverse makes cybersecurity coaching extra interactive.
The Australian arm of the enterprise doesn’t use the Oculus digital actuality headsets – which make it simpler to maneuver across the metaverse – so for now workers should depend on a program on their laptops.
Every worker creates their very own cartoon-like avatar. The figures don’t have arms or legs, however they do have palms.
“Folks additionally use it as a possibility to kind of specific a little bit of a persona via garments that they is perhaps keen to put on in a digital atmosphere that they wouldn’t be keen to put on within the conservative work atmosphere,” Ms Kruger mentioned.
Accenture is bullish on the function the metaverse will play in companies sooner or later and has arrange a brand new enterprise unit referred to as the Accenture metaverse continuum group to promote the providers to purchasers.
Familiarity with the digital world was additionally a useful gizmo for its consultants, Ms Kruger mentioned, getting ready them for future work with purchasers.
A survey performed by the analysis firm Telsyte discovered one in three Australians say they’d be keen to do conferences and coaching within the digital actuality of the metaverse if their office demanded it.
Nonetheless, the analysis discovered customers nonetheless have considerations concerning the headsets used to entry the metaverse, saying the gadgets are too heavy and too troublesome to arrange.
The metaverse may kill off extra of the enterprise journey market, eradicating the necessity to leap on a aircraft to attend conferences.
Ms Kruger mentioned the flexibility to convey massive numbers of staff into the identical digital area would enable Accenture to scale its onboarding course of.
“Two thousand folks is lots of people to come back into one location in just below 12 months,” she mentioned.
“Our poor onboarding group would have been in a heap within the nook had that each one been a standard face-to-face format.”
