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agilab undertakes rigorous academic research to advance knowledge about the digitalisation of work and its impact on wellbeing and work performance
Click on the links below to read about our research and projects:
Managing work-email
Getting on top of work-email: 4 ‘super actions’ associated with effective work-email activity
Energy, extraversion and dealing with work-email
Changing work-email habits
Personality and work-email activity
Control and work-email interruptions
Resisting work-email interruptions
Dealing with work-email when situations change
Digital work and healthcare
Resistance, tensions and consent to digital working in healthcare
The uptake of a new health information app in the NHS for young people
Agile working in a digital age
Changing how, when and where people work
Remote working to support disabled and neurodivergent workers
How expectations about work demands and resources change in virtual work settings
How a 4-day week can increase wellbeing at no cost to performance
What leaders need to know before trying a 4-day work week
Defending and building resources when work arrangements change
Rural co-working: New network spaces for a smart countryside
Rural co-working hubs and the satisfaction of human needs
NHS projects
Implementing decent, agile working in the NHS (major report)
Indifference as a sign of burnout in agile workers
The leadership resources required to lead a temporally and spatially dispersed workforce in an agile NHS
How to ensure agile working is made accessible to workers from low socio-economic groups
Examining why NHS workers express resentment about colleagues’ different agile working arrangements, and how to address this
Understanding the agile working needs of disabled and neurodivergent workers (in collaboration with Digit Research Centre)
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