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Milestone #6: Final Paper – due by 8/4 @ 11:59PM = 15% of the total grade

Overall, while your final paper can be in any structure, it must include the following components:

A. [~0.5 page] Introduction (rationales, key findings, thesis statement)

B. [1-2 pages] Interview Description

a. Description of the job or area your team chose to explore

b. Description of the interviewees (use pseudonyms) and their organizations

c. Description of the interview methods and processes

C.[2-3 pages] Interview Results (based on the interviews)

a. Summary of Part I answers (e.g., important similarities and differences in their day-to-day work among your participants)

b. Summary of Part II answers (e.g., salient trends/patterns you see among the participants)

D. [3-4 pages] Discussion: Connection (or disconnection) between the Part II answers and the broader literature

a. whether interviewees’ experiences map onto any of the concepts, theories, models discussed in the previous literature

b. whether any of their experiences contradict (or offer a different view of) what has been known in the previous literature

Alexis, Brad, Keyi, Feiyu

COMM122 Organizational Communication

Milestone #6; Final Paper

Flexibility Viability

The world has undergone a variety of different revolutions that brought about innovation and improvements to different aspects of human life throughout its history, and the most recent development of the digital age is no exception. What originally started as slow devices which could only store less than a single gigabyte’s worth of data (1976 Cray-1 supercomputer), has exploded into an era in which every single person holds a supercomputer with superior specs in the palm of their hands. Technology has become a necessity for human life to operate in just about every industry; whether it be scanning QRs for menus at restaurants, organizing reservations through yelp or websites, holding meetings, or just calling a relative from across the globe, it’s rare to find anyone who doesn’t adhere to technological norms. These improvements are not excluded from the work space; white collar jobs all typically consist of utilizing laptops or computers in order to get work done via excel sheets, emails, virtual meetings, and more. The progression of technological advancements have taken digital reliability in the workplace to new heights however, with the percentage of virtual collaboration and remote workers skyrocketing in recent years. Our group believes that this trend of increasing quantities of remote workers will continue to follow its observed pattern.

Interview Description

Today's organizations are rapidly transitioning from traditional workplaces to virtual environments. This shift has led to a significant increase in online employment, with more people working remotely than ever before. The trend of remote work is slowly becoming more and more prominent in many organizations today in various sorts of different fields of work, notably in the tech field which we’ll be writing about and presenting on. As more jobs become flexible in terms of allowing remote workers to uptake those positions, there will be a shift in how the work environment is experienced as compared to the physical in-person workplace. These differing experiences include benefits in regards to work-life balance for remote employees amongst other things, but will also bring about challenges in the workplace, clouding judgment for those who may be attempting to determine if remote work is beneficial or detrimental to companies who opt to utilize this employment method, and the following section will include predictions in regards to plausible challenges remote employees may face.

Our group has conducted interviews with 4 individuals all from within the tech field. Interviewee 1 is one of eight co-founders for a tech company named Z Potentials, they’re also the only one based in the USA with their employees being based in China, leading to a large portion of the company being involved in remote work. Interviewee 2 is a specialist at the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara, tasked with managing the Microfluidics Laboratory and the Innovation Workshop whose coworkers take part in remote work often. Interviewee 3 is a website development specialist for a company named GimFix, working mainly in designing, building and maintenance for clients’ websites, resulting in 100% of the work being remote. Interviewee 4 is a Senior Software Developer at Microsoft who takes part in writing software, supporting production services, along with coaching and collaborating with other employees.