Workplace

Overall aims of CWER are:

  1. Keep scholarly debate on work, workplace, and related processes within in sync with workplace changes. CWER conducts theoretical and empirical workplace research and produces academic papers that seek publication in subject related peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and monographs.
  2. Knit relations with other workplace research networks within the region of Central Europe, in a broader European and global context.
  3. Work closely with the industry and respond to policy makers’ relevant inquiries to enhance relevant policy mechanisms both at local and European level.

Main focus:

  • Human-centered workplace: human capital, productivity and associated tensions, work-related identities.
  • Physical workplace: workplace design and structure of workplaces.
  • Digital workplace: digital twinning, the use of XR technologies, digital work environments.
  • Methodology: workplace ethnography, digital ethnography, incorporating VR tools in ethnography

What we offer:

  • Contractual & Policy Research. CWER conducts workplace research addressing the needs of organizations and firms.
  • Academic research projects on the EU level related to the inquiry of diverse aspects of contemporary workplaces.
  • Individual consultation of workplace transformations or introduction of new digital tools in workplaces.
  • White papers and policy reports translating scholarly insights for the public.

Representatives of the team

doc. Marko Orel, Ph.D.

doc. Marko Orel, Ph.D.

Mgr. Ivana Lukeš Rybanská, Ph.D.

Mgr. Ivana Lukeš Rybanská, Ph.D.

Top publications of the team

  • Orel, M., Mariotti, I., & Zhurbas, V. (2024). Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces. European Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241237067
  • Orel, M., Mayerhoffer, M., & Chytkova, Z. (2023). “We were working together, apart”: Shifting fundamentals of pandemic disrupted coworking environments. European Management Journal. Forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.12.002
  • Orel, M. (2023). Autoethnography in the modern workplace: a reflexive journey. Journal of Organizational Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-06-2023-0038

Selected research projects

  • Horizon (Remote-Working Multiple Impacts in the Age of Disruptions) / 2024 – 2027
  • Erasmus KA2 (Coworking for EU) / 2022 – 2025
  • SPIN/Eutopia Alliance (Research on the Microphysics of Conflict in Coworking Spaces) / 2024 – 2026

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