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
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 | |
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 and Assistance: AI Agents, 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 |
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