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WE’RE CONSTANTLY REMINDED
OF THE CHALLENGES
ORGANIZATIONS FACE WITH
ENGAGING EMPLOYEES,
HARNESSING COLLABORATION,
AND INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY,
ALL WHILE PROMOTING
WELLBEING. WITH THAT BEING
SAID, IT’S FAR FROM GAME-OVER
FOR GAMIFICATION.
Gamification
also increases an
organization’s key
performance metrics.
T-Mobile leveraged
Bunchball, a cloud-
based software and gamification
company to develop “T-Community,”
a game that encourages employees
to collaborate on new products
and services. Employees gamed
their way by sharing knowledge
and increased T-Mobile’s customer
satisfaction scores by 31%.
Microsoft uses
gamification
to improve the
testing phase of
their products.
Through this, they developed a
game which harnessed collective
intelligence to identify faults
and therefore, feedback. Users
received badges for finding bugs
and the more badges employees
received, the more Microsoft
donated to charity. The inherent
competitive nature to win
resulted in increased awareness
of employees with those who
participated identifying 16x
the amount of bugs then non-
gamers.
What is an engaged employee?
An engaged employee, is one that typically
goes the extra mile for their organization. As
Forbes notes, “When employees care – when
they are engaged – they use discretionary
effort.” Walmart uses gamification to engage employees
through their training process creating competition among
employees while in turn increasing engagement and as well
as an emotional aspect to training. Engaged employees are
seen as aspirational and “in the know.”
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
PRODUCTIVITY
COLLABORATION
The WELL building certification has cemented
the fact that wellbeing is neither a fad nor a trend.
Pfizer partnered with Keas, a wellness gamification
company, which tracks participants’ wellness tasks and
ranks them publicly on a leader board. It groups
employees into teams to drive competition and
motivation and the results are fascinating
- 82% of participants said it improved
wellness with 77% of participants
saying it increased collaboration.
WELLBEING
THE MILLENNIAL
PERENNIAL GAMER
WILL MAKE UP 75%
OF THE WORKFORCE
BY 2025, YET THEY
ARE THE MOST
DISENGAGED GROUP
AT WORK.
GAMIFICATION
PROVIDES A
KEY SOURCE OF
MOTIVATION WHERE
FINANCIAL REWARD
CANNOT REACH.