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Research Seminar – Laurie Aznavoorian (University of Melbourne) / Embodied Organizational Experience in Hybrid Work Settings

Next Thursday, October 2 at 10:00-11:30 in RB436, Laurie Aznavoorian, CWER’s visiting doctoral fellow from the University of Melbourne, will present her three-phase research combining qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys, and biometric monitoring (EEG, ECG, skin response) to reveal how workplace design features impact employee experiences and performance in hybrid work settings. The seminar will take […]

New book published: Humanizing the Digital Workspace

We’re happy to share that our Head of Centre, Marko Orel, has just co-edited a new book with Springer Nature called “Humanizing the Digital Workspace: Creativity, Innovation and Leadership in the Age of Technology.” He worked with Matej Černe from the University of Ljubljana and Sut I Wong from BI Norwegian Business School to bring […]

EGOS 2025 sub-theme on hybrid working

Call for short papers at EGOS 2025 in Athens includes sub-theme 30 on hybrid working practices. Hybrid working, hailed as the ‘future of work’, involves entanglements between where, when, what and how people work while boosting new ways of organizing. It has significant creative potential as social actors ‘assemble’ different aspects of hybrid working and […]

Calls for papers inquiring hybrid workplaces

What is going on in hybrid workplace and how can we research them with variety of methods? If your research provides new insights and zooms in on hybrid workplaces, here are three calls for papers to consider. In case you have further questions about these calls please do not hesitate to contact Marko Orel. International […]

How to research workplaces? New Routledge handbook available

Workplace research necessarily incorporates multiple aspects of its subject of study – people, relationships, emotions, space, and time. Thus, workplace research methods are of utter importance, and surveys are not the answer to all research questions available. A new book published by Routledge and edited by Chiara Tagliaro, Marko Orel (FPH VŠE), and Ying Hua […]

Research Fellowship MSCA4Ukraine at Center for Workplace Research

As part of the EU’s response to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, a new dedicated fellowship scheme, MSCA4Ukraine will provide financial and institutional support to displaced researchers from Ukraine. Centre for Workplace Research (CWER) from Prague University of Economics and Business thus invites Ukrainian postdoctoral researchers and doctoral candidates to apply for MSCA4Ukraine with […]

Just published! “Collaboration Potential in Virtual Reality (VR) Office Space” by Marko Orel

The recent shift in labour markets has heightened the demand for alternative work arrangements. Virtual reality (VR) technology plays a significant role in this transition, with remote work as efficient as work performed from an organization’s own office space. This book explores the impact of immersive VR technology on the new virtual workspace. Specifically, it […]

Survey on work in coworking spaces

‘How will the contemporary workplace transform in the post-Covid-19 period?’

A new special issue by the Journal of Corporate Real Estate on the transformations of workplace environments during the pandemic has just been published. Our head of the centre, Marko Orel, has edited four exciting papers that share the light on various transformative aspects that have accelerated the change within contemporary workspaces. The note of […]

Call for papers / WL journal (Taylor & Francis)

Special Issue: Leisure, knowledge work and the digital nomad Guest Editor: Marko Orel (Prague University of Economics and Business) Article Due Date: 21 March, 2022 Publication Date (Approximate): Volume 64, Issue 3, 2022 The World Leisure Journal invites submission of papers for a special issue on “Leisure, knowledge work and the digital nomad.” The growth of the digital economy has […]