Description
Since early 2020, the higher education (HE) sector has had to react to unprecedented change and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The so-called ‘pivot to online’ (Salmon, 2020) forced emergency ways of working on university campus-based staff in an attempt to continue educating students while physical attendance at lectures, seminars, etc. was not permitted. As COVID-19 becomes endemic, many higher education institutions (HEIs) are taking the opportunity to reflect on how these emergency practices and policies could or should evolve into a planned and proactive approach to working in a hybrid environment. This process of reflection includes a greater focus on the wellbeing and inclusion of staff and students, which considers:
the impact – positive and negative – of digital practices adopted as a result of forced home working
employee expectations around office-based working
assumptions about how university campus facilities and systems are managed and used.
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