Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit - vmWork

The nature of organizations and the role and tasks of employees are changing. The main drivers of the change are new information and communication technologies, especially mobile tools and applications, and the ongoing globalization of markets and businesses leading to higher mobility requirements and widely distributed cooperation.

The change does not happen easily and without challenges and barriers. There is a danger that not enough attention is paid to human and social factors as enablers and barriers of the change.

Our mission is to understand the change from the perspectives of work systems, their contexts, subjects, tools and outcomes.

We study dispersed and mobile work systems in their contexts by analyzing and modeling them. Our practical aims are to create such management, leadership and design practices that the work systems can be developed in a sustainable manner.

The physical, virtual and mental context features of work systems.