Abstract:Metaverse has achieved the comprehensive connection and integration of physical space, cyber space, and mental space, and the domain of human production and life will extend from the physical space to the cyber space. The way in which humans perceive and transform the world, thus, will rely more on virtuality-reality interactions and data-driven methods. Compared with modern society, metaverse labor will realize the transformation of labor objects from the tangible to the intangible, labor subjects from the machine-assisted to human-machine collaboration, labor methods from fi xed attributes to crossing the virtuality and the reality, and labor relations from the single linear to multi-element elasticity. Thus, metaverse labor will achieve signifi cant breakthroughs in productivity and major innovations in production relations. However, the problems it brings will occur in addition to virtual world and real world, such as the risks of alienation caused by the confusion between virtuality and reality, the problem of protection of rights and interests under the view of new forms of employment, and the discussion of responsibilities and obligations about the wave of intelligence, etc. As an important trend in the future form of human labor, it is necessary to accelerate the policy design of metaverse labor, establish a trusted and controllable technological development system, establish a more resilient labor market, improve the system of rights and responsibilities of new business model spanning reality and virtuality, and prevent risks while fully activating its development potential.
