Symposium V: Summer 2008 Cultural Impacts on Distributed Work Practices

NewWOW’s fifth symposium was held July 13 through July 16, 2008 in San Jose, California. The group explored the impact of culture on best practices for distributed work groups. Our keynoter was Professor Pamela Hinds of Stanford University, who also prepared a research paper on the subject for the Symposium. Her research helped us understand how culture could affect perception and acceptance of distributed work practices, and by implication, whether different work practices would be needed when distant teams included people from different cultures.