Steve Ranger over at Silicon.com wrote an interesting piece on Second Life as the outsourcing's next frontier. "When PA Consulting wanted to build an extra wing for its offices, it hired the best man for the job.
Unusually, perhaps, it turned out that the best man for the job was an enormous rabbit, and one which wanted to be paid in an electronic currency that didn't exist a few years ago.
But then again, the office extension PA wanted was a virtual one, built in the rapidly growing Second Life online world.
As well as finding a rabbit to build the extra wing for its Second Life HQ, PA Consulting also found in-world 'residents' willing to work as greeters in its office in exchange for the in-world currency, Linden dollars.
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Thursday 21 June 2007
Outsourcing 2.0 -- into the Virtual World
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