Augmented Reality in Recruitment, Training, and the Workplace
A blog article on Equator HR provides an interesting perspective on the potentials for the more human aspects of Enterprise AR with a focus on using AR for recruitment by the HR Department. Despite the disadvantage of employees being tempted to play Pokemon Go at work, the game has caused speculation about the impact of using Augmented Reality in the workplace.
In recruitment, Augmented and Virtual Reality can be used to give office tours to potential candidates as well as presenting a day in the life of an employee at the company people are applying to. This has various benefits, such as:
• Allowing candidates to make an informed decision about the job
• Increasing number of employees staying at the company
• Reducing number of employee resignations
There are also advantages of using Augmented Reality in training and development. A virtual environment can be created, and hazards can be augmented into it for health and safety training for existing employees. Also, companies can provide customer service training by showing correct body language, tone of voice, etc. through Augmented Reality. In addition, Augmented Reality can aid workplace flexibility. Certain AR apps give details of employees’ time and attendance via various technologies such as clock software and bio-metric fingerprints.