Centre for the New Workforce
We investigate how to empower people and organisations as digital technologies transform work.
Powered by Swinburne Edge, the Centre for the New Workforce (CNeW) explores the future of human work, solving challenges and creating opportunities for workforce and workplace.
We research the impact of disruption on work, support leaders to leverage changes to work to empower their people, turn data into evidence for action, create knowledge and value in workforce and workplace transformations and position organisations to be future ready, resilient, adaptable, and able to thrive.
Feature reports
Learn workplace and workforce strategies, thought leadership and research through our downloadable resources below.
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2022 Supplementary Report
Enabling Wellbeing through Flexible Work
Looking to implement effective flexible working practices that enable employee wellbeing? Our joint report with Deloitte provides practical guidance to organisations facing this complex challenge.
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2022 report
Making Fair Work FlexWork
Employees now want more than fair pay. Drive your hybrid working industrial relations strategy with world-class data from Swinburne Edge and Deloitte.
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2021 industry briefing
Working to close Australia's skills gap: Lessons from abroad
By adopting lessons from overseas, Australia has an opportunity to accelerate skills growth and support greater collaboration across the public and private sectors.
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2021 report
Peak Human Workplace
In this unprecedented era, organisations must innovate to survive. Turn complex disruption into competitive advantage. Learn more about the peak human workplace.
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2021 report
Hybrid Working in Australia
COVID-19 has impacted work and how we use the office. This report reveals the current experience of hybrid work and role the office could play in the future.
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2020 industry briefing
Closing Australia's Skills Gap
Many jobs are undergoing major changes due to advances in technology. New ways of work are emerging. Learn more about closing Australia’s skills gap.
Our approach
Industry focused
We work with some of Australia’s most sophisticated organisations and take a partner-led approach to all our clients.
Consulting Led
Our experienced practitioners take a consulting led approach tailored to suit each organization’s needs leveraging established frameworks and tools to provide a deep understanding of the problem and unlock innovative thinking.
Applied Research
We merge academic research insights and methodologies with industry best practice to enable evidence-based outcomes to enable our clients to make informed decisions.
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Our research insights
The Centre for the New Workforce has developed a track record of research insights with a range of high-value industry partners in emerging workforce and workplace challenges.
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Our people
The Centre for the New Workforce aims to bring together creative minds, visionary researchers, and industry leaders to build a strong team and advisory committee. Meet our people.
Centre news
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- Social Affairs
- Business
- Politics
Government workers prioritise wellbeing over pay
New research by Swinburne Edge and Deloitte reveals how government workers feel about hybrid work, work during the pandemic and the importance of flexibility.
Monday 12 September 2022 -
- Health
Australia is on the brink of a wellbeing recession
Lockdowns and border closures may (hopefully) be a thing of the past, but the legacy of COVID looms large over our ways of working.Friday 03 June 2022 -
- Business
New Swinburne Edge research shows flexible work is here to stay
A new report – Reset, Restore, Reframe: Making Fair Work FlexWork – surveying 2,000 Australian workers, has found that flexible working options and a focus on wellbeing are non-negotiables.Wednesday 01 June 2022 -
- University
Industry leaders to boost Centre for the New Workforce
Two of Australia’s leading experts in digital experience and industrial relations have joined Swinburne’s Centre for the New Workforce (CNeW) to lead projects on the rapidly changing future of work.
Thursday 24 February 2022 -
- Business
Strategy absent from hybrid working approaches: new research
Swinburne’s Centre for the New Workforce has released new research into hybrid working, based on their 2021 national survey of knowledge workers.
Tuesday 07 December 2021
Find more news articles by visiting the Centre for the New Workforce newsroom.
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Contact the Centre for the New Workforce
Contact us to discuss how we can work together to determine new approaches to learning and knowledge creation.
Call 1300 633 560 or email edge@swinburne.edu.au.