The only limit is your imagination
The trouble is, when you are a financial services professional, that is quite a big limitation.
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Crappy advice you find on LinkedIn™
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“With [fill in the blank with the fad du jour], the only limit is your imagination”
During COVID, one financial firm I know experimented with virtual reality headsets. At no small expense, it commissioned a management consultancy to create a virtual office where a selected group of guinea-pigs could meet and interact, as near as dammit in real life.
The consultancy took the brief literally.
The virtual office was an exact replica of the bank’s head office, a dilapidated cluster on the outskirts of Zurich that had been a struggling shopping centre until the bank foreclosed on it in the 1980s and repurposed it as a satellite location for unglamorous operations teams. The recreation was perfect, down to the beige walls, grey carpet and Dell monitors sitting on plain formica desks: a clear desk policy enforceable by code of course the COO’s wet dream.
Triallists were sent Oculus Rift headsets and instructions on how to log in. It didn’t go well.
“You had a chance to reimagine work in a smuggler’s bar on Tattooine, a Bond lair, or strung between dirigible behemoths in the sulphurous atmosphere of a gas giant, and instead you gave us nausea and a splitting headache in a clapped out mall in Opfikon.
I’ll stick with the home office and Zoom calls, thanks.”
It did prompt one wag[1] to see if he could log in to his Oculus Rift headset from his virtual Dell Computer in the virtual office. Of course, they didn’t have fast enough graphics chips and it caused the system to crash, making him the most popular person in the firm that day.
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- ↑ Can’t imagine who.