Changing Your Work

Work Design for Success: Innovative Research and Leading-Edge Practice

The 2024 Centre for Transformative Work Design Conference Perth, Western Australia | 12-14 February 2024 The 3-day inaugural Centre for...

How Perth startups are responding to COVID-19

by Georgia J. Hay, M.K. Ward, Sharon K. Parker Most of us have probably heard the phrase “unprecedented times” almost daily during the...

Good news - most employees are as productive at home as in the office. But there is room to improve.

by Anita C. Keller, Caroline Knight, Sharon K. Parker The outbreak of COVID-19 forced many companies to adopt remote work practices due...

A Shift from Work Culture to Work from Home Culture?

Work from home was an exception and quite a rarity until a few years ago. There have been fierce debates on the pros and cons of work...

Tripled Levels of Poor Mental Health: But There is Plenty Individuals and Managers Can Do

by Caroline Knight, Sharon K Parker, and Anita C Keller Never before have so many people been forced to work from home so rapidly. As a...

"I’m Bored!": How To Make Your Work More Stimulating

by ARC Laureate Professor Sharon Parker About Sharon Sharon is a globally-renowned expert in the field of work psychology. As the...

How to Make Your Work from Home SMARTer

by Shannon Chen and Professor Sharon Parker For a printable copy of this article, click here. A regular day’s work in the office can be...

Faculty's Article of the Year award goes to Sharon Parker and Daniela Andrei

Congratulations to CTWD Director, Sharon Parker and Research Fellow, Daniela Andrei for winning the Faculty's Research & Innovation Award...

S.M.A.R.T work design for better health, satisfaction and performance

Whenever you go to work, you have a number of tasks, activities and responsibilities that you need to carry out, usually in collaboration...

Aligning SMART work to strategic HR practices

The Future of Work Institute (FOWI) invites you to, Aligning SMART work to strategic HR practices. Attract. On-board. Develop. Retain....

Research finds after-work hobbies key to proactivity in the workplace

Employees who engage in sporting, learning and volunteering activities outside work are more likely to get a better night’s sleep and be...

Updates on the Thrive@Work initiative

Associate Professor Karina Jorritsma is leading a major initiative for the Centre’s Industry Collaboratory, called Thrive@Work. With...

What is proactivity, why is it good for workplaces and what are its limitations?

As part of their business segment, Taking Care of Business, Jane Hebiton from RTR FM interviewed Professor Sharon K Parker about her...

Flexible working for job autonomy, well-being, retention and more

The Centre for Transformative Work Design recently partnered with a government organisation to investigate the effects of flexible...

3 Ways to Setup Your Headspace at Work: The Case of Entrepreneurial Co-working

Where you do your work impacts how you do your work, and entrepreneurs are no exception. In fact, workspaces are changing with new...

Future challenges in knowledge work: The push and pull of creating job autonomy

With an increase in automation and the continuous decrease of manual work, our future workforce will be more and more composed of...