New Frontiers in Community Research: Community Experiences Within & Beyond Organizational Boundaries.

Humans have a fundamental need to belong and to be a part of a community, yet the changing nature of work offers limited opportunity to create the social glue that binds us together, and thus exacerbates social disconnection. Putting the workers front and center inspires us to acknowledge workers' needs and calls our attention to explore how community experiences can be cultivated within and beyond organizational boundaries. Our panel symposium brings together diverse panelists who are leaders in community research to spark generative, interactive conversation about new frontiers of community experiences at work. Together we'll explore (1) how community experiences emerge in crisis situations, (2) unpack the practices employees and leaders can engage in to seed and nurture community experiences in organizations and (3) explore how cultivating community experiences can be achieved in hybrid, remote work settings and non-traditional work contexts. Considering ways by which community experience can transcend far beyond the organizational boundaries, we'll examine how organizations can best partner with external actors to unlock community organizing that can tackle grand challenges of our society and explore how corporate-community co-development can create synergistic settings to cultivate prosperity and social sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]