{"id":185,"date":"2006-05-11T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-05-11T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:07:36","slug":"the-name-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"The name of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me for the silly tittle, the Financial Times today reported about the positive aspects of games. With the battles between Sony and Microsoft&#8217;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!<br \/>\nWe have never used games for our projects, however or we have been installing darts, snooker tables, golf putties and recently <a title=\"table football\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tablefootball.com\/\">table football<\/a> (in the US called foosball). The staff loves it! We are suggesting inter-departmental competitions.<\/p>\n<p>I googled the positive aspects of gaming and found a very interesting <a title=\"article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.becta.org.uk\/research\/research.cfm?section=1&amp;id=2846\" class=\"broken_link\">article<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me for the silly tittle, the Financial Times today reported about the positive aspects of games. With the battles between Sony and Microsoft&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workvitamins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}