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His response was that gamification, at least on the enterprise level, has more in common with Taylorism than what we think of as "gameplay" when struggling to reach the next level of Candy Crush. Therefore, we shouldn't criticize gamification in the same way that we consider something designed purely for entertainment.Taylorism has been controversial ever since it was first introduced, however. Workers rights advocates have consistently critiqued it as means to disempower employees by encouraging infighting and competition. Economists and historians, meanwhile, have pointed out that it can have disastrous consequences when misapplied as it was, say, by the Soviet Union to arbitrarily boost production of one industrial product over another without keeping track of a desired goal.By 2020, however many points you have at work will help determine the kind of raise you get or which office you sit in.
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