Usage of gamification in enterprise: A review

Abstract

Enterprise games have an amazing ability to hold employee's attention, build loyalty, and increase motivation. The acceptance of game context in business applications is encouraging; also, it motivates employees to perform their tasks in an enjoyable manner. Enterprise gamification is growing at an impressive rate. This analysis focuses on how enterprises could use gamification for their benefits and discusses few implemented examples. The review concentrates on positive and negative aspects of gamification in business and discusses the mechanism that helps in implementing the games in an enterprise. Our findings revealed that, gamification has a fine line between being a positive tool to motivate employees and being a source of workplace pressure, which could affect the social and mental well-being.