The Type-2 Q-rung Orthopair CoCoSo method for Workplace Design Problems on the Metaverse

Abstract The development of technology is changing and transforming business models in the production and service sectors around the world. Especially in this age when the fourth industrial revolution is effective with different instruments such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, and cyber physical systems, the necessity of physical presence of people in the workplaces is gradually decreasing. Like many things developed in the virtual world, the virtual arrangement of workplaces is a very innovative undertaking. It is clear that the advantage of time and cost are the main reasons for the positive reception of the idea of workplace design in the metaverse environment. In this article, the criteria for workplace design in the metaverse environment of a company operating in the IT sector were examined and alternative metaverse platforms for workplace design using these criteria were evaluated. CoCoSo method based on the Interval Type-2 q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets is used in making the evaluations. Among the 6 criteria seen as important in the study, privacy and security, size and scale, and functionality were the three most important criteria. Among the alternative platforms evaluated, Rooom and Voxels are the first two platforms to be preferred.