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Research and innovation event

Where is your office? New insights on employee behaviour and social networks

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  • Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022, 12:00 – 13:00
  • Location: Online
  • Type: Ideas in Practice
  • Cost: Free
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The implications of hybrid working on employees and how to successfully design future workplaces.

Register your place on Eventbrite

Join our upcoming webinar, previewing key findings from the Adapting Office’s team’s interactive research report on hybrid working and future workplaces.

Insights into the impacts that different work patterns and workplaces have on employees, such as wellbeing, job satisfaction, performance, interactions, and what this means for organisations and the future of work will be shared.

Please note that this event is taking place online only. The link to join is available via the Eventbrite page and is shared in your confirmation email. Attendees will also receive the report shortly after the webinar has taken place.

Event Programme: 

12:00 Introduction by Dr Emma Gritt, Lecturer in Information Management, Management Department, Leeds University Business School
12:05

New Insights on Employee Behaviour and Social Networks in the Hybrid Workplace

  • Is office working beneficial?
  • What happens to hybrid misfits?
  • Does providing employees with choice pay off?
  • Are hybrid offices all about collaboration?
  • Does hybrid working affect your work network?
  • How are new starters faring under hybrid?
12:25

In Focus Practical Guidance

  • Putting social networks to use
  • Supporting different personalities in the hybrid office
  • Helping hybrid misfits find balance
12:40 Live Q&A
13:00 Event close

Speakers Include:

Dr Matthew Davis, Associate Professor in Psychology, Management Department, Leeds University Business School

Dr Helen Hughes, Associate Professor, Management Department, Leeds University Business School

Dr Emma Gritt, Lecturer in Information Management, Management Department, Leeds University Business School

Dr Hannah Collis, Researcher in Organisational Psychology, Leeds University Business School

Professor Chia-Huei Wu, Professor in Organisational Psychology, Management Department, Leeds University Business School

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Grace Carter (G.M.Bird@leeds.ac.uk) at Leeds University Business School.