Enterprises Look to the Metaverse for Remote Work

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Since Facebook announced its name change to Meta, and its corresponding goals around immersive tech, searches for “metaverse” have skyrocketed. 

If you want a solid, or maybe pixelated, rundown of the metaverse, Fortune has you covered (article is behind a paywall).

COVID shifted employees to remote work, and many aren’t itching to get back to an office, so companies are looking for ways to bring people together…without actually being together. 

Enterprises are looking to immersive tech to take advantage of our new work realities and of the advances in XR, 5G, cloud computing, and other innovations that serve as the underbelly of the metaverse. 

Microsoft is building out Mesh, a business-focused tie-in to the metaverse, where it, yes, meshes together information, tools, and people from across an enterprise.  

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) reports that companies are already jumping into the metaverse for employee onboarding and training. 

Companies are setting up work spaces in the metaverse (article is behind a paywall) to give employees a place (or maybe we should say space) to collaborate and socialize regardless of physical location. 

We’re one step closer to never having to leave our sleep pods—Matrix style.