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Jun 25

Why managers need to trust, not tether

How do you manage your staff when they are not in the room? And how do you measure their productivity? Indeed how can you even know they’...

May 19

How the pandemic may reshape the future of business and the workplace - "The Future of" podcast

Automation and AI were tipped to revolutionise the workplace, but it’s been a virus that’s brought real change. COVID-19 has stalled the ...

Jul 5, 2019

Research Fellow, Gigi Petery interviewed in article about upskilling mature workers

In a Seniors News article, Gigi Petery shared insights about the future of work and the value that mature workers bring to organisations....

Nov 27, 2018

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 rese...

Jul 30, 2018

The Taboo Workplace Topic that Threatens the Careers of Nearly Half of Mature Workers – Organization

As industries and governments across Australia and around the world grapple with how to best meet the needs of an ageing workforce, one f...

Jul 19, 2018

French post redesigned the job of post workers and made it more meaningful

Ever wondered when was the last time that you wrote a letter to a friend or a family member and used the post service for it? Given that ...

Oct 22, 2017

Doing Time: The Work Design of Fremantle Prisoners

This weekend, one of the Centre Post Docs and a holidaying Dutch Scholar, Professor Maria Tims, took time out to explore the underground ...

Oct 11, 2017

Working 9 to 5 is for losers … in Silicon Valley. And not only there, we suspect!

One of the overarching research questions that we are trying to pursue here, at the Centre for Transformative Work Design is “Why poorly ...

Sep 29, 2017

Work Design in the Media - Reflections from PSYC5515 Students

UWA's PSYC5515 (Organisational Development and Work Design) students were challenged to apply work design principles to media pieces - th...

Sep 26, 2017

Time for Uber to redesign it's work practices?

Transport for London (TFL) has said that it will not be renewing Uber London's private hire operator license due to "public safety and se...

Sep 26, 2017

Meet your new workplace role model: the chef giving up his Michelin stars

From The Guardian, September 22, 2017 In his recent article for The Guardian, Stefan Stern, the author of "Myths of Management" and a vis...

Sep 22, 2017

Our Take on The Australian's Take on Future Work

A recent article in The Australian was an opinion piece regarding the future of work. Where will human skills would be used when machines...

Sep 16, 2017

Transforming workplace health through interventions

From the Financial Times, September 13, 2017 It has been recognized globally that illness is not merely an employee’s personal problem bu...

Sep 5, 2017

Telecommuting can improve productivity and engagement... If it's done right.

From Forbes, 31 Aug 2017 Out of the 11.6 million employed people in Australia, 3.5 million are telecommuters. In other words, about three...

Aug 27, 2017

4 Insights from Work Design for Your Self-Managing Organizational Structure

If you're an employee, CEO, researcher, or consultant, here are some insights for you about how to be 1) reliable and 2) adaptive in your...

Aug 20, 2017

Autonomy: A small saving grace amidst the pressures of gig economy work

Our colleagues at UWA, Caleb Goods, Alex Veen, and Tom Barratt, published some early findings from their research on food delivery worker...

Aug 20, 2017

Have the jobs of the future been invented yet?

21st of August 2017 From the BBC World Service, More or Less May 30th 2017 Are we prepared for the future of work? This radio show invest...

Aug 14, 2017

1 in 4 Australians take a sick day a month due to bad sleep. How can work design change this?

From the Sleep Health Foundation, July 2017 Sick leave costs Australian employers $32.5 billion every year. In a recent study, the Sleep ...

Aug 2, 2017

We can’t put a price on better work … or can we?

This is an older piece of news, but as we found ourselves talking about these trials during our centre research meeting last week, we tho...

Jul 31, 2017

The Female Perspective on the Gig Economy

From Hyperwallet, Q1 2017 In Australia, the average female salary is 86% of that of the average male. However, according to a recent surv...

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