The following briefing document will be of particular use to directors of human resources, directors of strategy, agile working leads, CEOs, and policy communities as it summarises our second report.

This is our second report from our study that reflects what we have learned working from home through the COVID-19 pandemic and how workers are saying no more 9-5; the future of work is hybrid.

The experience of one of our team members as they start a new role post-lockdown and in an undecided office working plan

This is the second webinar from Work After Lockdown, funded research by ESRC, looking at the impact of enforced working-from-home during the pandemic.

This essay by Zoe Young was first published in Essays on Equality: Towards a Gender-Equal COVID-19 Recovery in May 2021 by the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London

Zoe Young reflects on the meaning and significance of working time to well-being and performance, and explores the impact of competing time pressures on working parents under lockdown

This is our first report from our eighteen-month study and looks at how organisations and workforces adapted and learned from working from home under the first lockdown.

In advance of our Wave One research report which will be out at the end of the month, here’s some useful guidance on supporting worker wellbeing during lockdown.

This is the first event in a series to share the emerging findings of our eighteen-month research project titled Work After Lockdown, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Our project examines how the Covid-19 accidental experiment around working from home is changing the way the UK will work after lockdown.

At this time of year, you would either be a reluctant joiner or enthusiastically embracing National Christmas Jumper Day 11 December alongside Bob in accounts and Sue in HR. But the majority of white-collar workers are not back in their offices and in no hurry to return, according to our early findings from our major research project titled Work After Lockdown.

Working-from-home is not new. Back in the 1990s, new technologies emerged such as e-mail and dial-up internet and business leaders became interested in the possibilities they offered for white-collar workers to work remotely. This ‘teleworking’ concept was written up and talked about. Yet, very few took advantage of this new way to work. Twenty five years on, the Covid-19 pandemic changed everything.

Suddenly, organizations had no choice but to ask, even demand all their employees to work from home. This became the most significant quasi-experiment in working life for millions of workers.

By Stephen Bevan, Head of HR research development, Institute for Employment Studies

There have been various newspaper reports that the government is concerned that working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic has reduced productivity. So the news that England is entering another period of lockdown will not help to calm those fears.