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How is the COVID-19 accidental experiment around working from home changing the way the UK will work after the lockdown?

Project overview

This project followed organisations and individuals through the successive lockdowns and as they started working in a hybrid way over the course of 18 months, to understanding the organisational learning around work transformation.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Jane Parry

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Changing workplaces and occupations
  • Workforce inequalities
  • Flexible, remote and hybrid working
Connect with Jane

Email: J.Parry@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Yehuda Baruch

Professor of Management
Research interests
  • Career studies
  • HRM
  • International/global HRM
Connect with Yehuda

Email: Y.Baruch@soton.ac.uk

Dr Michalis Veliziotis

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Trade unions and HRM practices
  • Quality of work
  • Labour market institutions
Connect with Michalis

Email: M.Veliziotis@soton.ac.uk

Professor Mina Beigi

Professor of Career Studies
Research interests
  • Work-nonwork interface
  • Understudied careers
  • Career success
Connect with Mina

Email: M.Beigi@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Reimagining the organisation of work post-pandemic
Jane Parry, 2025
Type: bookChapter
Sociology, work, and organisations
Jane Parry & Brian McDonough, 2024
Type: book
Young people: the neglected workers in the post-pandemic hybrid work debate
Jane Parry & Michalis Veliziotis, 2023
Type: conference