Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office.
A new study by four BYU information systems professors found newly-formed work teams experienced a 20 percent increase in productivity on subsequent tasks after playing video games together for just 45 minutes. The study, published in AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, adds to a growing body of literature finding positive outcomes of team video gaming.
"To see that big of a jump -- especially for the amount of time they played -- was a little shocking," said co-author and BYU associate professor Greg Anderson. "Companies are spending thousands and thousands of dollars on team-building activities, and I'm thinking, go buy an Xbox."
For the study, researchers recruited 352 individuals and randomly organized them into 80 teams, making sure no participants with pre-existing relationships were on the same team. For their initial experimental task, each team played in a geocaching competition called Findamine, an exercise created by previous IS researchers which gives players short, text-based clues to find landmarks. Participants were incentivized with cash rewards for winning the competition.
[...] The researchers found that while the goal-training teams reported a higher increase in team cohesion than the video-gaming teams, the video gamers increased actual performance on their second round of Findamine significantly, raising average scores from 435 to 520.
"Team video gaming may truly be a viable -- and perhaps even optimal -- alternative for team building," said lead researcher Mark Keith, associate professor of information systems at BYU.
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @06:19AM
BYU? Playing video games, where you kill all the gentiles, just like, or actually identical too, "Ender's Game"? Truely, the Saints of the Latter Days find themselves in the Days of Latter, as in the total idiocy of their religion is posted all over the internet, and no one is even slightly taken in by Orson Scott Card, or the "Mormon Vampire Diaries" that was "Twilight". Bella has to give birth, since she was only female, and her role was to help her male ascend to his own Kolab. So, holy fuck! When I have to work with Mormons, I invite them over for drinks. Alcoholic drinks. I promise not to tell their "Bishop" of their "Steakhouse". And then I bury them down by the river, retroactively convert them to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and their soles rest in pieces. Turnabout is fair play, I figure.