The Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) network is an eclectic group of scholars and practitioners who share one goal: to contribute to the design of workplaces where people work to their full potential and experience high levels of mental and physical wellbeing.
Social, physical, technological, and managerial aspects of the workplace play a role in achieving optimal employee-workplace alignment, which in turn ensures optimal support of employee performance, satisfaction, health, and wellbeing. This also includes worker behaviors and interactions with one another and with their physical, psychosocial, and digital work environments. Additionally, the awareness has grown that the place where work is carried out plays a vital role for mental and physical well-being and has been expanded to many different types of locations over the past decades due to more hybrid ways of working.
Hence, a transdisciplinary approach is required to advance both workplace research and practices. Many different stakeholders are involved in reaching optimal employee-workplace alignment. In academia, the complexity described above has translated into many different disciplines being involved in workplace research, without sufficient cross-disciplinary research. Also, little research is translated to practical solutions in the professional fields that are involved. Practitioners have been working largely independently of academic researchers for decades to research how workplaces make workers thrive in their specific context.
These challenges led to the formation of the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) network in 2017. It brings together workplace researchers and research-focused professionals from many relevant disciplines to share their insights and ideas about the best place(s) to work.
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