On 13 November 2026, colleagues from the Faculty of Business Administration at VŠE hosted an online policy workshop on remote work in Czechia. The workshop was part of REMAKING, a Horizon Europe project on the impacts of remote work at a time of disruption. Karolina Kania and Ivana Lukeš Rybanská, both members of CWER, organised […]
Many organisations are calling employees back to the office on the grounds that remote work hurts performance. The evidence for that claim is more scattered than the debate suggests. On 10 December, CWER will host Ann Sophie Lauterbach from TU Dresden as part of the ICBS seminar series. She will present a meta-analysis that takes […]
Happy to share that our COST Action Tech-TO.BE (CA25158) has been approved. In short, the project brings together a pan-European community to explore digital transformation in the built environment, with attention not only to technologies, but also to the people, practices, and organisational contexts that make them work. That is why it is especially relevant […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
