How Metaverse Will Affect Hybrid Work?

Can Metaverse really affect hybrid work!

Over the past few years, remote work become the norm for both firms and people.

With Metaverse making its way into future, let's see how it will impact the future of hybrid work.

Even now, after lockdowns, many businesses still favour the hybrid working style, with some workplaces only opening up twice or three times each week. According to current predictions, 73% of teams will include remote employees by 2028, but if widespread hybrid working is to become the norm, we must embrace the technology required to make it possible.

Businesses and their employees were able to continue working productively during the epidemic by integrating communication solutions like video conferencing tools into the workplace.

The majority of corporate leaders are aware of their limits, with 65% saying they think the metaverse will be more transformative than any video conferencing technology.

This is due to the fact that the metaverse provides a fully immersive environment that eliminates the judders and pauses typical of a traditional video conference by enabling more organic discussions in which ideas can be shared, conveyed, digested, and reacted to more freely and efficiently.

In other words, it better imitates in the virtual world the sense of intimacy and presence felt in the actual office. Even while it's not a replacement for face-to-face connection and communication in the workplace, the metaverse.

Employers who implement immersive virtual environments widely will help employees feel more connected to one another and part of the professional community while also giving them the tools they need to brainstorm, create, and design with more conviction. While hybrid and flexible working have numerous benefits for both organizations and employees, they can have drawbacks.

One of the greatest is "distance bias," which is the tendency for people to favor things that are close to them in both time and place. This can result in unconscious discrimination in the workplace since managers who are ignorant of the phenomena are more prone to show favoritism toward staff members who share their office. This condition is supported by data from the Office for National Statistics. It shows that from 2012 to 2017, persons who worked mostly from home had a lower chance of promotion and benefited less from training than their office-based counterparts.

It was 38% less likely for home employees to receive a bonus between 2013 and 2020.

Yet, PixelMax, a producer of 3D immersive communications platforms, asserts that its technology may be able to level the playing field.

An always-on, 3D, metaverse-based virtual office where both remote and office workers would interact on an equal footing in real time was the vision presented in a whitepaper that was published around the end of last year.