Episode 14: All Work & No Play Makes Amazon Gamify Jobs

This week, the Art Pros Podcast about gamification, games as art, and a few other spicy related topics. Amazon fulfillment centers are now slowly integrating video-games into their facilities by installing the games into their automated shelving units, which are equipped with a touch screen control unit. Although the company says that the results of the games are not monitored, the workers are still tracked for speed and efficiency nonetheless. Video games can be great fun in the right environment and there are even video games that have earned the honor of being called a work of art. Tune in to learn more because this one really got us fired up. Heres the article we used to research about Amazon and gamification: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/21/missionracer-how-amazon-turned-tedium-warehouse-work-into-game/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f8cd6d559a73