Building a compassionate workplace using information technology: Considerations for information systems research

•Proposes the need for information systems (IS) researchers to pursue work on compassion in organizational workplaces.•Highlights the value of IS research on compassion.•Discusses how information technology (IT) is intricately related to compassionate phenomena in workplaces.•Proposes an integrative framework that maps the scope of organizational compassion in IS.•Develops a research agenda that can aid future inquiry into compassion in IS research..