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Your daily dose of dystopia: Walmart turns to VR to pick middle managers
by kleinbl00

    But Strivr and Walmart are moving toward integrating a worker’s body movement and attention data, collected in VR, which early research shows gives a more accurate and complete picture of future performance and a candidate’s soft skills, said Mr. Casale. That data isn’t yet used in scoring, he said.

    The use of body movement data to predict personality and potential could have pitfalls if workers aren’t given other ways to prove their worth, say some training experts. Workers become high-potential employees for many reasons, including training, experiences, opportunities and access to mentors—characteristics a VR assessment may not be able to fully capture, says Andrew Gadomski, managing director of recruiting and workforce analytics firm Aspen Analytics. “No one’s got a silver bullet,” he says.