{"id":799,"date":"2012-06-06T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-06-06T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:19:04","slug":"gamifying-work-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2012\/06\/gamifying-work-seriously.html","title":{"rendered":"Gamifying work. Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification of the workplace. I would really like to know how it&#8217;s working out for those who have tried it.<\/p>\n<p>The claims are substantial:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the highest use of games will be to redesign work so that it is more like a game and to allow work to be conducted within games&#8230;&#8221;  &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/707253\/For_CIOs_the_Games_Are_Just_Beginning\">For CIO&#8217;s, the games are just beginning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that game mechanics alone are unfit for use in the workplace. What&#8217;s the point of layering on game elements if there&#8217;s no game &#8212; worse, if there&#8217;s work being done? The use of game-like incentives would threaten to cheapen employee pursuits and discredit their efforts and achievements. <\/p>\n<p>Work is serious. Games can be serious, too. But should we take gamification of work seriously?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamification of the workplace. I would really like to know how it&#8217;s working out for those who have tried it. The claims are substantial: &#8220;the highest use of games will be to redesign work so that it is more like a game and to allow work to be conducted within games&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; For CIO&#8217;s, the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}