“…Members of global work groups may carry out some of their tasks independently, but several tasks such as brainstorming, co-designing and decision-making are often performed together, either in co-located sub-group meetings or in virtual meetings. As global team members often belong to multiple groups in their work (see for example O'Leary and Mortensen, 2010), scheduling global team meetings and being physically or virtually present, but also socially attentive and engaged in them, may be challenging due to competing individual priorities, roles and routines, as well as different work and leisure time related cycles, time zones and schedules (Ballard et al, 2008;Pendharkar, 2013;Swigger et al, 2012). Therefore, the question of presence and absence in global virtual team meetings plays a central role and affects the quality of collaboration in global work groups.…”