resources.md

Future of Work External Resources

This file includes several examples of external research which we distributed to participants during the first workshop. While this reading list is publicly available and accessible, the site's internal reports and survey are confidential.

Example Opinion and News Articles

• Alexander et al. (2021, May 17). What executives are saying about the future of hybrid work. Mckinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/what-executives-are-saying-about-the-future-of-hybrid-work

• Makarius et al (2021, March 24). What is your organization’s long-term remote work strategy? Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/03/what-is-your-organizations-long-term-remote-work-strategy

• Purtill, C. (2022, March 3). Can workers climb the career ladder from outside the office? New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/business/dealbook/remote-work-careers.html

• Johanson, M. (2021, August 8). Hybrid work: How ‘proximity bias’ can lead to favouritism. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210804-hybrid-work-how-proximity-bias-can-lead-to-favouritism

• Morgan, J. (2021, January 14). The difference between employee engagement and employee experience. Leading The Future of Work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/difference-between-employee-engagement-experience-jacob-morgan/

• Bailey, J., & Rehman, S. (2022, February 14). How to over return-to-office resistance. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-to-overcome-return-to-office-resistance

• Bindley, K. (2022, March 4). Tech companies are reopening their offices, but tech work has changed forever. The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-companies-reopen-their-offices-facebook-google-11646365155

Example Research Articles

Understanding Software Engineering Productivity

• Murphy-Hill, E., Jaspan, C., Sadowski, C., Shepherd, D., Phillips, M., Winter, C., ... & Jorde, M. (2019). What predicts software developers’ productivity?. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47(3), 582-594. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2900308

• Forsgren, N., Storey, M. A., Maddila, C., Zimmermann, T., Houck, B., & Butler, J. (2021). The SPACE of Developer Productivity: There's more to it than you think. Queue, 19(1), 20-48. https://doi.org/10.1145/3454122.3454124

• Crawford, E. R., Reeves, C. J., Stewart, G. L., & Astrove, S. L. (2019). To link or not to link? Multiple team membership and unit performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(3), 341. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000381

• Johnson, B., Zimmermann, T., & Bird, C. (2019). The effect of work environments on productivity and satisfaction of software engineers. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47(4), 736-757. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2019.2903053

Large Scale Scrum

• Larman, C., & Vodde, B. (2016). Large-scale scrum: More with LeSS. Addison-Wesley Professional.

Transitioning to the Future of Work

• Howe, L. C., & Menges, J. I. (2021). Remote work mindsets predict emotions and productivity in home office: A longitudinal study of knowledge workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Human–Computer Interaction. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07370024.2021.1987238Teodorovicz,

• T., Sadun, R., Kun, A. L., & Shaer, O. (2021). How does working from home during COVID-19 affect what managers do? Evidence from time-Use studies. Human–Computer Interaction. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07370024.2021.1987908

• Newbold, J. W., Rudnicka, A., Cook, D., Cecchinato, M. E., Gould, S. J. J., & Cox, A. L. (2022). The new normals of work: A framework for understanding responses to disruptions created by new futures of work. Human–Computer Interaction, 37(6), 508–531. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1982391

• Battiston, D., Blanes i Vidal, J., & Kirchmaier, T. (2020). Face-to-Face Communication in Organisations (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. 2934290). https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2934290 (Preprint)

• Ford, D., Storey, M. A., Zimmermann, T., Bird, C., Jaffe, S., Maddila, C., ... & Nagappan, N. (2021). A tale of two cities: Software developers working from home during the covid-19 pandemic. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 31(2), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487567

• Wang, Z., Chou, Y. H., Fathi, K., Schimmer, T., Colligan, P., Redmiles, D., & Prikladnicki, R. (2022). Co-designing for a Hybrid Workplace Experience in Software Development. IEEE Software. https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2022.3229894

Example Solutions of Other Similar Organizations

• Miller, R. (2021, July 8). Dropbox is reimaging the workplace with Dropbox Studios. TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/08/dropbox-is-reimagining-the-workplace-with-dropbox-studios/

• Remote. (n.d.). The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. Notion. https://www.notion.so/Remote-Handbook-a3439c6ccaac4d5f8c7515c357345c11

• Entis, L. (2022, March). Google calls workers back to offices. LinkedIn News. https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/google-calls-workers-back-to-offices-5742442/

• Aten, J. (2022, March 2). With 1 sentence, Google’s CEO just shared the best plan yet for returning to the office. Inc. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/with-1-sentence-googles-ceo-sundar-pichai-just-shared-best-plan-yet-for-returning-to-office.html

• Wiseman, B. (2021, March 22). The next great disruption is hybrid work—are we ready? Work Trend Index Annual Report, Microsoft. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/hybrid-work

• Gurman, M. (2022, March 4). Apple sets April 11 Return-to-work deadline for corporate staff. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-04/apple-sets-april-11-return-to-work-deadline-for-corporate-staff

Podcasts

• Franc, A., & Hughes, C. N. (Hosts). (2022, January 24). SAP Labs – Hybrid Working and Collaborative Communities (No. 1858). In The Tech Talks Daily. https://techblogwriter.co.uk/podcast/