What is the nature of expertise and work? How are they redefined, practiced, and personified as waves of...
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What is the nature of expertise and work? How are they redefined, practiced, and personified as waves of...
The concept of the "future of work", though widely-referenced in mainstream media and policy discourse, remains...
The Motherload is a look at the realities of contemporary motherhood in the time of post-pandemic pressures,...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/882708468?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 In this candid discussion, two leaders in research and ethnography explore what's shifted, why, how much, and how they're guiding their organizations forward through social, macroeconomic, and...
A roundtable of experienced business owners and independent practitioners share their wisdom and experiences...
This paper explores recent developments in anti-work theory to identify key learnings for ethnographers in industry. It focuses in particular on how anti-work perspectives allow us to rethink the managerial...
INTRODUCTION Pundits, policy-makers, and ordinary people alike have recognized that the landscape of industries and work has rapidly changed, and coming advancements in technology and automation will end many jobs and fundamentally change others (Lamb 2016). Since the 90s, The Government of Canada...
The COVID19 induced lockdown in India and consequent migration of workers severely affected the economy. When the migrants returned to urban areas, newer challenges surfaced around the scale and nature of jobs on offer, as well as the skills and aspirations of workers. In this paper, we follow a...
An EPIC2020 Sponsored Panel presented by Atlassian The Atlassian Research & Insights team commissioned a research study that involved thousands of workers across the globe to see how COVID-19 and the sudden shift to working from home has affected them. Atlassian looked inward, too, to find out...
Agency and automation is explored through three case studies of the use of Cobots – collaborative robots – in three different auto production firms. The business challenges faced by these firms include labor shortages, quality control and reduction of waste. The Cobot solution resulted in...