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Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013
nk497 writes "With businesses increasingly using digital tech like virtual worlds and Twitter, their staff will have to be given guidelines on how they 'dress' their avatars, according to analysts. 'As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation,' said James Lundy, managing vice president at Gartner, in a statement. 'We advise establishing codes of behavior that apply in any circumstance when an employee is acting as a company representative, whether in a real or virtual environment.'"
*Dress* codes for avatars? Keepin' it socially acceptable? Let's go one step further, folks. Let's have our avatars be a friggin' socially acceptable *ethnicity* while you're at it. I mean, if your boss is dictatin' things, that is. Just be a zombie clone Geek Squad member!
... that kind of control is normally just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, I heard they even dare to dictate you what you are going to do eight hours a day, five days a week. The horror!
Really, if dress code is what makes you quit, it is win/win for both sides. Company lost troublemaker and "pointless issues" guy and did not have to fire him and pay severance. "Epic win" :-)
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.