News: How online meetings are levelling the office playing field
Interesting article from The Guardian - Far from suffering ‘Zoom fatigue’, many women have found the move to online meetings empowering....
Event 1 Dec:Digit Debates - Skills for the Planetary Labour Market–Indian Workers in the Platform...
... Economy With 560 million internet users, India is the second largest digital market in the world. People between 20 and 39 years of...
Event 24 Nov: Digit Debates - Do workers need a legal right to disconnect?
Increases in home-working during the pandemic have led to a renewed focus on the impact of connectivity ‘overload’ on workers. An impact...
Event 17 Nov: Digit Debates - Connectivity–OECD perspectives and policies to expand network coverage
Connectivity is at the heart of the ongoing transformation to a digital economy. However, while connectivity is increasing in countries...
Event 10 Nov: Digit Debates - Mind the gap: Digital platforms and the future...
of social and employment protections Digital platforms have reshaped the working lives of millions and the consumption patterns of many...
Event 3 Nov: Digit Debates - Diversity and Digital Exclusion: developing an inclusive agenda
As tech becomes increasingly influential in our lives, we need to take further steps to ensure it works for everyone. Nimmi Patel, Policy...
Event 20 October: Digit Debates - The Gender Wage Gap in an Online Labour Market: The Cost of Interr
Why do women earn less than men on Amazon Mechanical Turk? In this talk, Abi Adams-Prassl discusses her research analysing gender...
News: How zoom fatigue most affects women and newbies
Fascinating new research from the BPS indicates that zoom fatigue impacts some of us more than others: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/10/...
Sussex 4-day Week Study
The Sussex 4-day Week Study is an exciting new research project, investigating how a 4- day week can benefit businesses and organisations...
News: Tackling proximity bias in the workplace
Humans tend to respond more positively to people they see, but what does this mean in a new world of remote working? An interesting...
News: The legal right to disconnect could become the norm in Europe
"The right to disconnect refers to rules that say an employee should not be expected to field work calls and emails, or communications...
News - Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently (Economist)
A new study of more than 10,000 employees at an Asian technology company between April 2019 and August 2020 found that total hours worked...
News: agiLab's first session
Our first agiLab session was held in May 2021. Presentation themes included legal elements of agile working and a thought leader talk on...
News: Making remote and hybrid meetings work in the new future of work
Blog post from Microsoft Research: Recent findings in the Work Trend Index show that remote meetings are both a growing pain point for...
News: Working excessive hours increases risk of stroke and heart attack, WHO says
Article from People Management: Research published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization found...
News: Work from home advice could end on 21 June, says prime minister
Article from People Management: Government advice that individuals should work from home wherever possible could be dropped on 21 June,...
News: How we are using the pandemic to radically reform how we work
From the Local Government Chronicle: St Helens MBC is rationalising its buildings to support staff as the shift to remote working becomes...
News: Digit researcher co-authors report on Working from Home
Digit Co-Investigator, Professor Debra Howcroft, has co-authored a report on working from home (WFH) for the Scottish Trades Union...
Event 16 June 2021: Digit Debates - How does labour market digitalisation affect social mobility?
Children tend to inherit their parents’ social class through the types of jobs they get. However, digital technologies are now...
Event 9 June 2021: Digit Debates - Pandemic, performance, and the pace of work
To what extent has the COVID-19 pandemic really changed the world of work? At the point that the UK entered lockdown at the end of March...