The Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) is launching a new suite of reports on this, drawing on the Working@Home project led by Professor Abigail Marks (funded by the ESRC and Newcastle University). The launch webinar is at midday on Tuesday 29 September. 🗓️ The research, based on surveys and interviews with UK workers, points to two patterns: ⚡ Intensification: more meetings, more messages, more task-switching and fewer natural breaks. 🏠 Extensification: work spilling

(Source: The University of Manchester) Working from home and digital technology may be making it easier for employees to work while ill and blurring the boundaries between work and home, according to a new study. The paper, by Professor Sir Cary Cooper of The University of Manchester, Professor Luo Lu of National Taiwan University and Professor Shu-Fang Kao of Soochow University, argues that traditional definitions of presenteeism no longer reflect the realities of modern

After 5 years of rigorous academia-practice research in partnership with the NHS and NHS Emplorers, we're delighted that decent, agile working features in the 'Promoting flexible working' section of the newly published NHS staff standards. Thank you to all of the NHS colleagues who have been part of agilab, sharing their knowledge and voices. For more on applying decent and agile flexible working, read the blog by Dr Emma Russel (agilab's direcotr) and Sam Owen (Assistant Dir