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What if a shorter work week could make us healthier, happier, and more productive?
I had a fun conversation with Professor Rochelle Burgess & Dr Xand van Tulleken on their podcast about the public health case for a four-day work week. đ¨Â New episode of Public Health Disrupted out now! Is it time to rethink the 9 to 5? In this episode, we explore the public health case for a […]
Peer Review at CHIWORK25
by Shiping Chen Summer has brought not only sunshine but also the excitement of the annual CHIWORK conference! Iâm thrilled to be a paper presenter at CHIWORK this year. CHIWORK 2025 is being hosted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Although I wasnât able to attend in person due to other commitments, I still felt the vibrant […]
âSometimes Itâs Like Putting the Track in Front of the Rushing Trainâ: Having to Be âOn Callâfor Work Limits the Temporal Flexibility of Crowdworkers
LascÄu, L., Brumby, D. P., Gould, S. J., & Cox, A. L. (2024). âSometimes Itâs Like Putting the Track in Front of the Rushing Trainâ: Having to Be âOn Callâfor Work Limits the Temporal Flexibility of Crowdworkers. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(2), 1-45. This paper examines how the design of crowdsourcing platforms impacts the temporal flexibility […]
How did people respond to the disruption to work caused by the pandemic?
Our paper “The new normals of work: a framework for understanding responses to disruptions created by new futures of work” has just come out in Human-Computer Interaction Journal. Open access to the paper is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07370024.2021.1982391 In the paper, we explore how people adapted to work during the pandemic and how we might understand people’s response […]
The great remote work experiment â what happens next?
Ready to go back to the office? Sam Wordley via Shutterstock Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, four experts dissect the impact a year of working from home has had on employees and the companies they work for â and what a more hybrid future […]
Media interview: âIf you switch off, people think youâre lazyâ: demands grow for a right to disconnect from work
Prof Anna L Cox is quoted in The Guardianâs article âIf you switch off, people think youâre lazyâ: demands grow for a right to disconnect from work
How the pandemic will shape the workplace trends of 2021
Remote working became the new normal in 2020. Elenabsl/Shutterstock Dave Cook, UCL The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that the amount we work would gradually shrink to as little as 15 hours a week as technology made us more productive. Not only did this not happen, but we also began to spend extra […]
Talk: Games for Academic Life
Prof Anna L Cox gives keynote speech âGames forAcademic Lifeâ at GALA 2020, Games and Learning Alliance conference. A copy of the slides is available for download.
Media interview: Sandy Gould in The Loop
Dr Sandy Gould talks about the results of a study that we presented at the Microsoft Research New Future of Work Symposium âThe New Remote Working Ageâ in Bridgehead Communicationâs âThe Loopâ
The Global Remote Work Revolution and the Future of Work
Dave Cook, who has been collaborating with us on the eWorkLife Remote Work study has published a chapter in The Business of Pandemics book:Â The Global Remote Work Revolution and the Future of Work.