New Future of Work

with Fireside Chat facilitated by Sean Rintel (opens in new tab) and Gloria Mark (opens in new tab)

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (opens in new tab), Stanford University
Pandemics, The 4-Day Week, and the Future of Work

Jim Hollan (opens in new tab), UC San Diego
Beyond Application and Document-Centered Views of Information

Thomas W. Malone (opens in new tab), MIT
Minglr: Supporting ad-hoc, private conversations online

Stuart Duff (opens in new tab), Pearn Kandola

Melissa Gregg (opens in new tab), Intel

Oliver Haimson (opens in new tab), University of Michigan

Facilitator: Gloria Mark

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
COVID and Working From Home

Daniel M Ravid, Jerod White, Dave Tomczak, Ahleah Miles & Tara Behrend, George Washington University and Purdue University
Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Digital Surveillance of Workers: A Psychology Focused Approach

Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha, Gregory Abowd & Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Institute of Technology
Social and Ubiquitous Technologies for Remote Worker Wellbeing and Productivity in a Post-Pandemic World

Longqi Yang, Sonia Jaffe, David Holtz, Siddharth Suri, Shilpi Sinha, Jeffrey Weston, Connor Joyce, Neha Shah, Kevin Sherman, CJ Lee, Brent Hecht & Jaime Teevan, Microsoft and MIT
How Work From Home Affects Collaboration: A Large-Scale Study of Information Workers in a Natural Experiment During COVID-19

Track 2

Facilitator: Sean Rintel

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz & Katherine Isbister, SFSU and UC Santa Cruz
VR in Workplace Meetings: Learning from Social VR in ‘The Wild’

John Tang, Microsoft
Early Indicators of the Effect of the Global Shift to Remote Work on People with Disabilities

Julia Markel & Philip Guo, UC San Diego
Designing the Future of Experiential Learning Environments for a Post-COVID World: A Preliminary Case Study

Saiph Savage & Mohammad Jarrahi, Microsoft and UNC Chapel Hill
Solidarity and A.I. for Transitioning to Crowd Work during COVID-19

Accepted papers will form the background for these discussions. Each session will start with prerecorded paper videos being played by a facilitator (with authors answering questions in text chat during their video), followed by the group exploring answers to a short series of questions (which will be provided).

To find out which papers have been assigned as background for theme, please see the Themes breakdown (opens in new tab).

There are two sessions for each theme (one per day on August 4 and 5) and same questions will guide discussion. Participants should feel free to either stay in one theme or move around between themes. To keep the meetings at reasonably equal sizes, we ask participants to sign up for sessions on both days in the General channel of the New Future of Work Symposium team.

Communication: Videoconferencing, Virtual Reality, social media, communication contexts, experiences, and practices

Education: Experiences, organisations, policies, preparing the workforces of the future

Employment: Hiring, onboarding, management, freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, gig work

Hybridity: Blending physical and digital experiences, workspaces, managing local and remote

Inclusion: Accessibility, diversity, fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics

Productivity: Collaboration, measurement, practices, information management

Remote Work: Working from home, working from anywhere, distributed teams

Society: Public policy, business, economics, health, societal implications and confounding factors

Wellbeing: Work-life balance, social connection and isolation

moderated by Sean Rintel (opens in new tab) and Gloria Mark (opens in new tab)

To find out which papers have been assigned as background for theme, please see the Themes breakdown (opens in new tab).

Communication: Videoconferencing, Virtual Reality, social media, communication contexts, experiences, and practices

Education: Experiences, organisations, policies, preparing the workforces of the future

Employment: Hiring, onboarding, management, freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, gig work

Hybridity: Blending physical and digital experiences, workspaces, managing local and remote

Inclusion: Accessibility, diversity, fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics

Productivity: Collaboration, measurement, practices, information management

Remote Work: Working from home, working from anywhere, distributed teams

Society: Public policy, business, economics, health, societal implications and confounding factors

Wellbeing: Work-life balance, social connection and isolation