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New Starts at Home, New Focus at Work – Autumn 2025
This time of year always brings a sense of new beginnings—buying school uniforms at home and preparing for the arrival of new students at work. This autumn adds another milestone: getting my eldest ready to start their new adventure at university. As they head off into this new chapter of their life, I’ve been reflecting […]
What if a shorter work week could make us healthier, happier, and more productive?
I had a fun conversation with Professor Rochelle Burgess & Dr Xand van Tulleken on their podcast about the public health case for a four-day work week. 🚨 New episode of Public Health Disrupted out now! Is it time to rethink the 9 to 5? In this episode, we explore the public health case for a […]
’Jumping Out from the Pressure of Work and into the Game: Curating Immersive Digital Game Experiences for Post-Work Recovery
Mella, J., Iacovides, I., & Cox, A. (2024). ’Jumping Out from the Pressure of Work and into the Game: Curating Immersive Digital Game Experiences for Post-Work Recovery. ACM Games: Research and Practice. In this paper we explore how digital games can be used for psychological recovery after work. We conducted a study involving eleven participants who […]
“Sometimes It’s Like Putting the Track in Front of the Rushing Train”: Having to Be ‘On Call’for Work Limits the Temporal Flexibility of Crowdworkers
Lascău, L., Brumby, D. P., Gould, S. J., & Cox, A. L. (2024). “Sometimes It’s Like Putting the Track in Front of the Rushing Train”: Having to Be ‘On Call’for Work Limits the Temporal Flexibility of Crowdworkers. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(2), 1-45. This paper examines how the design of crowdsourcing platforms impacts the temporal flexibility […]
How did people respond to the disruption to work caused by the pandemic?
Our paper “The new normals of work: a framework for understanding responses to disruptions created by new futures of work” has just come out in Human-Computer Interaction Journal. Open access to the paper is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07370024.2021.1982391 In the paper, we explore how people adapted to work during the pandemic and how we might understand people’s response […]
Media interview: Deutsche Welle TV News
Dr Marta Cecchinato was interviewed by Deutsche Welle TV News , Germany’s international broadcaster on their show ‘The Day’ about our work on work-life balance during the pandemic.
Media interview: Londoners urged to do ‘pretend commute’ during Covid-19 lockdown to protect health
Prof Anna L Cox is quoted in the London Evening Standard. Londoners urged to do ‘pretend commute’ during Covid-19 lockdown to protect health By Nicholas Cecil
Talk: Facing the Future: what lessons have we learned?
Prof Anna L Cox gives an invited talk at the Facing the Future: what lessons have we learnt? event to celebrate National Work Life Week 2020.
Boundary Management and Communication Technologies
Marta E. Cecchinato and Anna L. Cox have published a chapter titled Boundary Management and Communication Technologies in The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society. Abstract We live in a world of communication overload, where there is a wide range of platforms and devices to choose from, each providing massive content, offering different affordances, […]
Digital work-life Boundaries for when you’re working from home
Prof Anna L Cox talks to Andrew Kun and Orit Shaer about Digital work-life Boundaries for when you’re working from home on their Future of Work Conversations webinar