Forgive me for the silly tittle, the Financial Times today reported about the positive aspects of games. With the battles between Sony and Microsoft’s XBox heating up, some interesting news about the more positive side effects of gaming. Not that I am interested in games whatsoever, but FT noted apart from the jobs and the economical benefits, the fact that gaming seems to improve staff productivity, and is used for training. Gaming: a WorkVitamin!
We have never used games for our projects, however or we have been installing darts, snooker tables, golf putties and recently table football (in the US called foosball). The staff loves it! We are suggesting inter-departmental competitions.

I googled the positive aspects of gaming and found a very interesting article on the features in games that contribute to motivation in games. Take table 2: Motivation and change the words player to worker and you have the basis for the design of a work environment with happy, motivated staff.