August 3, 2020 - August 5, 2020

New Future of Work

9:00 AM–12:00 PM PDT (inclusive of breaks)

Location: Virtual/Online

Themed discussions will involve generating visions of research, policy, technology, and practice for specific issues in the New Future of Work. 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.To find out which papers have been assigned as background for theme, please see the Themes breakdown.

As a group, you will explore answers to these questions:

What are three grand challenges in this topic that can make a difference in this area for the future of work with respect to:

Technology
Practice
Policy

What are the biggest challenges/obstacles in achieving progress in this area for the future of work?
What should we be aware of so as not to repeat past mistakes in this area as we think about the future of work?
What research do you think needs to be done to make progress for the future of work?

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

11:10 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Theme	Included Papers
Communication: Videoconferencing, Virtual Reality, social media, communication contexts, experiences, and practices	Cats, Kids, and Video Calls: How Working From Home Affects Media Self-Presentation Facilitating Team Awareness Through Ambient Displays The Future of Work and Social Media: The Reconfiguration of an Intersection Virtual Reality as a Remote Workspace Platform: Opportunities and Challenges
Education: Experiences, organisations, policies, preparing the workforces of the future	Exploring the Future of Remote User Research Social partnership on the labour market, virtual job fair
Employment: Hiring, onboarding, management, freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, gig work	The Gig Economy in Times of COVID-19: Designing for Gig Workers’ Needs Heros or Schmucks?: Implications of the Hero Narrative for Gig Workers During the CoVid-19 Pandemic How Freelancers Experience Online Labor Marketplaces during a Pandemic On-Demand Programming Assistance
Hybridity: Blending physical and digital experiences, workspaces, managing local and remote	Measuring Thriving Experience in Physical Working Spaces Pandemic-Informed Proxemics: Working Environment Shifts Resulting from COVID-19 Practices around Working from Home and Early Indicators on Returning to Work after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Data from Microsoft China Seating preference analysis for hybrid workplaces
Inclusion and Assistance: AI Agents, accessibility, diversity, fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics	Empowering and Supporting Remote Software Development Team Members through a Culture of Allyship Let’s Work Together: Integrating Human Support with Conversational Agents Remote Work Aided by Conversational Agents
Productivity: Collaboration, measurement, practices, information management	Establishing a research agenda for enterprise information management Managing attention and productivity in distracting mediated workspaces Organizational Bulk Email Systems: Their Role and Performance in Remote Work
Remote Work: Working from home, working from anywhere, distributed teams	Can We Just Start Over Again? Resetting Remote Team Dynamics Challenges and Gratitude: A Diary Study of Software Engineers Working From Home During Covid-19 Pandemic Eworklife: developing effective strategies for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic When virtual work goes viral: How employees respond to a forced change from physical to virtual work set-ups
Society: Public policy, business, economics, health, societal implications and confounding factors	Impact of COVID-19 crisis on the future of work in India Political Polarization, Power and Public Health: What Should Organizations Know Slow Down, Redesign, and Accelerate: Adaptations and Resilience on Business Sales Transformation amid COVID-19 crisis The Virtual Office of the Future: Are Centralized Workplaces Obsolete?
Wellbeing: Work-life balance, social connection and isolation	Managing Tasks Across the Work-Life Boundary: Opportunities, Challenges, and Directions Mindsets about remote work predict employee well-being in home office: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Remote Work and Well-Being Remote workers’ wellbeing in the age of COVID-19

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

Theme	Included Papers
Communication: Videoconferencing, Virtual Reality, social media, communication contexts, experiences, and practices	Beyond Zooming there: Understanding nonverbal interaction online Multicommunicating and The Future of Work Towards a Practical Virtual Office for Mobile Knowledge Workers
Education: Experiences, organisations, policies, preparing the workforces of the future	Making Information Infrastructure Work (In)visible As University Campuses Reopen Resilience and the Rapid Shift to Remote Working at a University: Emerging Questions
Employment: Hiring, onboarding, management, freelancing, on-demand, crowdwork, gig work	Career Trajectories in Online Freelance Platform Work Freelancing Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic Interpersonal Collaboration to Support Digitally Mediated Gig Workers’ Well-being in Pre- and Post-Pandemic Times Position Paper: Freelancing and Labor in the Digital Economy
Hybridity: Blending physical and digital experiences, workspaces, managing local and remote	On the Making and Breaking of Social Music Improvisation during the COVID-19 Pandemic Remote Observation of Field Work on the Farm
Inclusion and Assistance: AI Agents, accessibility, diversity, fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics	Fairer Futures of Work for Low-Wage Service Workers: A position statement From Efficiency to Care: Shifting Accountabilities in COVID-19 Digital Job Placement
Productivity: Collaboration, measurement, practices, information management	A Longitudinal Interview Study on Work Planning During COVID-19 Lockdown Envisioning New Productivity Tools for Domestic Information Work Environments Overly Immersed: Understanding the Two Sides of Flow and their Implications for Mediated Work Environments
Remote Work: Working from home, working from anywhere, distributed teams	Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Social Roles and Emotions while Working from Home Leading Virtual Teams – A Literature Review Putting digital artifacts to work Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographic Flexibility
Society: Public policy, business, economics, health, societal implications and confounding factors	The future of work and play: From automated vehicles to working from home Social Glue and Post-COVID Labour Markets: Evidence from a Task Census of a Large Corporation Strategic Management of Worker-Computer Interaction
Wellbeing: Work-life balance, social connection and isolation	The future of work and wellbeing: A preliminary report from a series of conversations Incorporating Principles of Mindfulness in the Design of Technology Move, Collaborate, and Iterate: Improving the Work from Home Experience SWEET – Towards a Digital Wellbeing and Occupational Health Platform in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic