How We Work Matters More Than Where We Work — New CSCW 2025 Research

We’re excited to share a new publication co-authored by SONIC’s Director CSCW2025Noshir Contractor, alongside Diego Gomez-Zara, Dr. Liz Gerber, Darren Gergle, Kapil Garg, Ph.D. , and Michael Massimi. Instead of asking “Where should we work?”, this paper argues we should be asking “How can we work more effectively when we’re distributed?” Based on a theoretically grounded survey of 1,526 U.S.-based knowledge workers, the authors identify five factors that shape remote and hybrid collaboration: •.