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The Clayman Institute will bring together prominent academics, industry leaders and government officials to promote academic research on how workplaces can be redesigned to be more flexible and redefined so that organizational cultures do not penalize workers who make use of flexible practices.
The Clayman Institute will promote systematic research on RRW through a two-stage process.
Year 1 - Working Group: First, a small working group of academics and industry leaders will be convened to assess the state of research on workplace flexibility and redefining work. The RRW working group will create new research initiatives to move RRW forward. This original research will act as the foundation for designing and implementing flexible workplace practices. The group will be comprised of approximately 20 prominent academics from diverse disciplines and 5 industry leaders who have experience with designing and implementing flexible work arrangements. This group will meet three times over the course of a year and be charged with defining the questions that need to be answered and producing initial, original research. They will also help plan for the second stage of the process, which is the first RRW Conference.
Year 2 - The RRW Conference: This RRW Conference will be a bicoastal conference, with one day of sessions held at Stanford and a second day, held two weeks later, on the East Coast. A bicoastal conference will allow for broader involvement of industry leaders and will generate more media attention to the event. The conference will include presentations by Working Group members, and will also involve other academics and industry leaders.
