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📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
According to a McKinsey report, more than 20 percent of the workforce could work remotely three to five days a week as effectively as they could if working from an office. More than half the workforce, however, has little or no opportunity for remote work. Some work is likely to stay remote after the pandemic as many people came to enjoy the extra freedom. On the other hand, many will return to their offices as they feel more productive and what to separate work and free time. It will depend on the work of people where they can and want to work. The current discussion further limits itself to home and office leaving out other places that could become more common places to get work done in the future.
Answer any of the following questions:
- Where will work happen in the future?
- Are there other places (third places) than home and office that could gain in popularity?
- What trends will change our living areas?
- What does the office of the future look like?
- Which third places are there and what benefits have they?
- Where can which work be done best? How do you define "best"?
- What does New Work Design look like?
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Desk research current academic literature on the topic
- Identify types of work, living, and third places where work is done
- Analyse different work and office approaches
- Define best practices and give visual examples (e.g. photos of workplaces)
- Design recommendations for companies to create the office of the future
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for New Work / Trend Research / Architecture / Psychology
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Felstead, A., Jewson, N., & Walters, S. (2005). The shifting locations of work: new statistical evidence on the spaces and places of employment. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017005053186
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of a bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!
👉 welpe@tum.de