{"id":686,"date":"2023-04-17T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workmill.jp\/en\/?post_type=webzine&p=686"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:51:05","slug":"avatars-remote-work-20230417","status":"publish","type":"webzine","link":"https:\/\/workmill.jp\/en\/webzine\/avatars-remote-work-20230417\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should We Use Avatars for Remote Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become increasingly popular worldwide. Before the pandemic, it was more of something to look forward to. Now that the world is finally leaving the pandemic behind, individuals and corporations worldwide continue to explore alternatives to the traditional work model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIKKY is one of the companies leading the charge to create more and more work options for their employees. The virtual reality corporation’s Virtual Market (commonly known as Vket) attracts more than one million visitors worldwide and provides its metaverse development engine, Vket Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIKKY Inc. COO\/CQO, Mika Sawae shares the reasoning behind the coming-to-work-as-an-avatar initiative, what implementing it entails, and the benefits accruable to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mika Sawae<\/strong>
COO\/CQO of HIKKY Inc. professional hair and makeup artist turned illustrator. Continues to connect with many creators and communities through event planning and management, which has been her forte since her student days, and continues to produce multi-content. She started working in the VR space at the end of 2017 and oversees the entire creative process of HIKKY. She is a mother of two, and her daughter recognizes her mother’s avatar as her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Why Work as An Avatar?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“My Vket beta” is scheduled for release in spring 2023. It is being developed so that anyone can easily enjoy the Metaverse on a smartphone or PC web browser.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Sawae first met with her teammates, they were all in the Metaverse virtual space, where they connected and had fruitful conversations. When the opportunity to work together at HIKKY came up, it was only natural to continue in that flow as she felt dragging them out of that space into a physical office might be a step back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We were originally interacting with each other in this world, so it’s like we’re working in the same way,” Sawae says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that virtual workspace set up, new employees familiar with the Metaverse can join the flow. Employees unfamiliar with it had to “first of all, take care of their virtual appearance.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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