Work in the Metaverse

Senior Advisor & Futurist, Sofie Hvitved, hosted our fifth Futures Seminar this year: "Work in the Metaverse". With her she had experienced professionals working in the mixed field of immersive VR and AR as well as with the future of work. At the seminar we presented four scenarios for the future of the Metaverse developed and presented in our new whitepaper available below.

You can now watch or re-watch the seminar with Mads Troelsgaard, CEO and co-founder of SynergyXR – a platform that supports companies in establishing their own presence across Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality - as well as Brian Dolan, CEO and Founder of WorkReduce - an on-demand solution for staff augmentation in a digital workplace.

During the webinar you will hear from experts currently working on solutions towards the Metaverse on immersive technologies, new workflows, x-to-earn and the web3 economy. The groundwork for the development of the Metaverse is being laid as we speak, with a steady merge of our physical and virtual lives. A number of immersive technologies are already being used by some first-mover organisations for e.g. collaborating, learning, and meeting in virtual environments, but what are the different implications for the future? What can we expect to see in the future?

The Metaverse might not only enable us to work in new ways but might lead to entirely new forms of work as well. The push towards web3, which includes the emergence of new forms of ownership with blockchain, decentralized, and token-based economies like that of NFTs, along with the proliferation of decentralized autonomous organisations (DAOs) governed by systems rather than people, will also likely factor into future developments of the Metaverse.

Consequently, we may see the conventional ‘work-to-earn’ approach to making money be supplemented by other ways of participating in the economy, including ‘play-to-earn’ and other ‘x-to-earn’ logics in decentralized networks.

Join us with experts from the field to give deeper into the implications of the corporate Metaverse and work in the Metaverse.

Questions we will explore
What are the different future implications of work in the Metaverse?
What is the difference between the Immersive Metaverse and the Web3 Metaverse?
What is the Corporate Metaverse?
What can you do as a company today to get Metaverse-ready?



The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) is an independent, non-profit futures think tank and was founded in 1969 by Professor Thorkil Kristensen, former Danish Minister of Finance and Secretary-General of the OECD.

CIFS works towards the betterment of society by leveraging multidisciplinary capabilities to equip and inspire individuals, organisations, decision-makers, and the public to act on the future today.

The Institute aims to have an open and engaging global profile, be closely involved with partners, members, governments, academia, businesses, and the public. The Institute also desires to build futures literacy in society in a time when it has never been more important.

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