Workshop theme: Human-Digital Collaboration and the Changing Nature of Work 

Workshop date and time: Saturday, 12th December 2026, from 11:00 AM - 17:00h 

Submission deadline for extended abstracts (5 pages all included): 21 September 2026 

Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2026 

Submission via e-mail at: cnowsig@gmail.com 

Please use the submission template linked here.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION 

The nature of work and organizing is changing with the deeper embedding of new digital technologies in the workplace. New emerging digital work practices and arrangements based on remote and hybrid work are now the new normal way of working in many organizations. Recent developments in, for instance, (generative) AI and VR/AR raise new relevant questions about the collaboration between humans and technologies at work. Digitization is transforming work but also changing and challenging core aspects of organisations such as employee connectedness, engagement and how meaning and identity are formed and reproduced in day-to-day work. Transformations also range from micro to macro in scale and come in many different flavours depending on local contexts, cultures and norms. These complex  effects challenge us to investigate how both local (idiosyncratic, indigenous) and global (common, standardized) practices  are supported, enhanced and also hindered by digital technologies – and also highlight the possible threats that the use of these technologies may pose to those practices. On the one hand, new digital technologies can possibly support more dynamic and fluid work arrangements within and across organisations, enable access to the labor market to larger populations of workers, and allow for more flexibility in terms of when, where, and how we work. There is  great potential to leverage the opportunities from this new landscape of work in organisations to improve the lives of workers. Yet, this changing nature of work also raises many concerns and unintended consequences (e.g., challenges in distinguishing between what is “real” and what is virtual, digital fatigue, impact on well-being, meaningless work with algorithmic management, worsening digital inequalities, and the corrosion of privacy and security). We need therefore to consider integration of human and digital factors in the changing nature of work in the future digitization of workplaces and organizing. This is the theme for this workshop where we would like to discuss new and current research that improves or challenges our understanding of these themes.

At the in-person workshop, a combination of short presentations and group discussions will be used to facilitate the exchange of ideas. 

The workshop will include a keynote speakers: TBA

You are invited to submit extended abstracts about your research (maximum 5 pages) related to the theme of the workshop. Indicate whether this is a completed research project or research-in-progress. 

Potential topic areas include (but are not limited to):

• Integration of human and digital factors in the changing nature of work

• Emerging new patterns of work and organising

• Digital working and workplace technologies

• Algorithmic management within work platforms

• Digital infrastructures of work

• Modern workspace as a combination of physical and digital environments

• Changing spatial and temporal dimensions of work

• Work fragmentation and nomadic work practices

• New forms of virtual teamwork and virtualization of work

• Virtual collaboration in digital organizations 

• The use of (generative) AI in shaping new work practices

• New technology-enabled forms of employee participation and engagement

• Gig economy and crowd-work 

• Local and global impacts on professions and labour through digitization and automation

• Work-life balance, technostress and boundary management

• Creating more sustainable and resilient work arrangements locally and globally 

• Managing digital exhaust and privacy issues

• Workplace datafication 

This is the 18th CNoW workshop. It started out at ICIS in Milan in 2013 and has been held every year since. We are a growing community and in 2021 we joined AIS as a Special Interest Group - the Changing Nature of Work (SIGCNoW). 

The Workshop Program Chairs look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon.

Mari-Klara Stein, TalTech, mari-klara.stein@taltech.ee

João Baptista, Lancaster University, j.baptista@lancaster.ac.uk

Louise Harder Fischer, IT-University of Copenhagen, louf@itu.dk 

Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, lra.msc@cbs.dk  

Bart van den Hooff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, b.j.vanden.hooff@vu.nl 

Melissa Sexton, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, m.m.sexton@vu.nl