Working from home: what works and for who?

Working from home: what works and for who?

The global pandemic has pushed organisations to embrace remote work. Discover the lasting impact of hybrid models and join us as we delve into effective strategies, tailored policies, and governmental responses. Let's connect researchers, industry partners, and policymakers to navigate the evolving landscape of remote work.

Event details

• Date: Wednesday 29 May 2024
• Time: 5.00PM – 8.00PM
• Location: Foyer and Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre, UWA Business School
  
  

Our speakers

Dr Katlijn Haesebrouck
Dr. Katlijn Haesebrouck is an Associate Professor at Maastricht University, where she teaches accounting. She earned her Ph.D. from KU Leuven in Belgium. Dr. Haesebrouck specializes in exploring how businesses can better guide and motivate employees, helping them to effectively tackle their limitations. Her research looked into practical questions such as how to encourage employees to share their knowledge, the impact of company structures on this sharing, and the reasons why people might not always report information accurately. Her findings are shared in major academic and business journals, influencing both academic and practical applications in her field. In one of her recent studies, Dr. Haesebrouck investigates the dynamics of remote work, exploring whether individuals maintain the same level of productivity and honesty when working from home as they do in the office

Associate Professor Doina Olaru
Doina Olaru is a transport modeller, focusing on travel behaviour, accessibility, time-use, and impacts of new fuel and vehicle technologies. She is part of two active multi-disciplinary research groups at UWA, working on methodological solutions for better integrating urban land-use and transport systems and their translation into practice and understanding daily activities and their impact on transport (Planning for Transport and Research Centre PATREC and the Centre for Business Data Analytics CBDA). This enables her to work with researchers from various backgrounds and disciplines, continuously exchanging modelling knowledge on various data analytics techniques and expanding interests into various applications regarding business networks and processes.

Dr Stijn Masschelein
Dr Stijn Masschelein is a lecturer in accounting at the University of Western Australia. He is interested in the role of (management accounting) information in decision making and risk taking. His research investigate how verifiable and subjective information supports formal and informal contracts. His interest is easily piqued and as a result he is involved in a wide variety of projects such as field applications in target setting and cost of quality and work-from-home policies, lab experiments on negotiations, markets, and risk taking, survey research on integrity and quantitative field studies in the banking sector. He has a wealth of experience in a range of statistical methods such as meta-analysis, (Bayesian) multilevel models, and simulations.

Dr Joseph Carpini
Dr Joseph A. Carpini is a Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Management and Organisations Department at the University of Western Australia Business School. Joseph obtained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Western Australia. His research rests at the intersection of workplace performance, mental health, and diversity. Joseph has published over 30 peer-review journal articles and academic entries in outlets including the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Early Interventions in Psychiatry, and the BMJ Open. Joseph was awarded the UWA Business School Early Career Research Award in 2021 and his research has attracted over $1 million in competitive research funding. He has a rich history working with industry partners including Fiona Stanley and King Edward Memorial Hospitals, the Anatomy of Complications Workshops, Nexia (Perth), and Human Resource and Development Canada. For example, his research on surgical teams has resulted in a state-wide “gold standard” for operating theatre safety procedures to facilitate teamwork and communication.

Associate Professor Alex Luksyte
Alex Luksyte is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia Business School. She received her PhD in Industrial‐Organizational Psychology from the University of Houston. She studies overqualification and demographic and cultural diversity in the workplace. Alex has published her research in top-tier academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, among others. In 2017, she received an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award to study positive and negative effects of overqualification as well as issues of demographic diversity in the workplace. Her research has attracted over a million Australian dollars in funding from national and international funding agencies.