New book explores the challenges of working from home

Photo by Marta Filipczyk on Unsplash Academics from the University of Sussex Business School and Coventry University have teamed up to produce a groundbreaking book on agile working and working from home. The new book draws on new and existing research and literature to provide impactful insights and new findings into the impact of home-working and technology on productivity and personal welfare. The findings unveil crucial information about how employees can maintain healthy habits, maximise productivity and stay connected to teammates and colleagues despite working from varied locations and experiencing limited direct contact with managers. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the growing phenomenon of agile working, flexible working through the use of new technology and e-working to meet market needs as well as individual and organisational goals. Coventry University's Christine Grant and the University of Sussex Business School's Emma Russell , who are both registered occupational psychologists, collaborated to write Agile Working and Well-Being in the Digital Age. With the nation currently locked in battle with the Covid-19 pandemic, the working lives, patterns and routines of millions of people have been impacted over the last 10 months, so the timing of Christine and Emma's book release couldn't be more apt. Dr Emma Russell, Course Director for MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology at the University of Sussex Business School, said: "As we look towards our post-pandemic working lives, more and more of us are considering how we can be more agile about how, when and where we work.