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"Work After Lockdown is a major research project funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), as part of UK Research & Innovation's rapid response to Covid-19. The research examines how enforced working from home in the UK is changing how people want to work in the future and how organisations respond.

The project has completed the first wave of its research, relating to the period of rapid change during the lockdown of March-July 2020. This report presents insights from this first wave of data collection and summarises the learnings and implications for employers and policy-makers. The themes explored in the report relate to managing change; employee health, well-being, performance and productivity; working effectively from home; learning and development; and future demand for hybrid and flexible working.

The analysis draws upon three sources of data collected between July and December 2020:

Analysis of the national dataset Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey;
1,035 survey responses to our online worker well-being survey among employees working from home in jobs that were more office-based prior to the pandemic;
38 in-depth interviews with leaders, managers, and colleagues without management responsibilities in four case study organisations, selected to cover a range of geographical working experiences across the UK, as well as different organisational forms.
Verbatim quotes from interviews are used throughout the report."

"Work After Lockdown is delivered by a partnership of academic and applied researchers from the university, commercial, and social sectors specialising in human resource management, and organisational behaviour. It led by the Department of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at Southampton Business School (University of Southampton), in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Studies and work design and organisational culture specialists, Half the Sky.

The Work After Lockdown project has completed three waves of research, relating to distinct phases of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions introduced in the UK and, which enforced working from home for formerly office-based employees. This report presents insights from the waves of data collection and summarises the learnings and implications for employers and policy makers.

The themes explored in this report relate to leading organisational change; employee health and well-being; managing performance and productivity in remote teams; learning and development; promoting inclusion through new working practices; and preferences for flexible and hybrid working."