Category: Research

  • Hybrid negates the need for switching behaviour

    Originally published May 2023 Hybrid working has fundamentally changed what it means to be activity-based working. In my previous blogs on this series, I have explored how collaboration is now happening much more through a screen, and how those in the office more often have ascribed themselves special privileges to…

  • The presence-based loyalty scheme

    Originally published in April 2023 The routines and rituals that happen in a place can come to create an ‘insideness’ or a feeling of belonging. It is through participation in these rituals or routines that we get to know a place and feel a part of it – it is…

  • Collaboration now looks like absorption

    Originally published in March 2023 Collaboration is a mainstay of the modern workplace. Since Covid, the mass media has been awash with grand proclamations about the changes organisations are making to their workplace to enhance collaboration. What has been missing from much of the discussion has been a recognition that…

  • Engagement in the post-Covid workplace

    Originally published in February 2023 Four and a half years ago I began a professional doctorate. I had an aspiration to contribute to the bringing together of academia and practice in the world of workplace. The first challenge as a doctoral student is to identify the topic you want to…