What Comes Next for Flexible Working? Your Questions Answered
- Start: 12:00pm
- End: 1:00pm
- Duration: 1 Hours
- Category: Network Events
- Region: Nationwide
- Online
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Flexible working continues to evolve, bringing new opportunities, challenges, and questions for HR professionals and people leaders. Join Dr. Jo Mutter (University of Auckland) and Associate Professor Paula O'Kane (University of Otago) for an interactive lunchtime webinar exploring the latest academic and practitioner insights on flexible working.
What makes this session different? The discussion will be shaped by your questions.
Ahead of the event, we are inviting Flexible Work Network members to tell us what questions they would most like answered. Whether you are grappling with issues around employee expectations, performance, culture, equity, the stigma that can still accompany flexible working, or other emerging challenges, we want to hear from you.
We will collate members' questions and focus the webinar on the topics of greatest interest to the network, drawing on the latest academic and practitioner research to inform the discussion.
To submit a question, please email [email protected]
Register now and help shape the conversation.
The Flexible Work Network provides general information only and cannot offer advice on specific circumstances or provided detailed responses to individual queries. If you have a specific matter, please seek independent professional advice
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Presenter Details
Associate Director Paula O'Kane, University of Otago
Paula is an Associate Professor and Director of the Human Resource Management major in at University of Otago. Her research focuses on flexible and remote work, examining how these models are reshaping employee wellbeing, performance, and organisational culture. She has a special interest in qualitative research methods, supporting depth of understanding and theory development. With a strong academic foundation in management and HRM, her work bridges research and practice, offering insights that help organisations adapt to new ways of working. Paula is passionate about rethinking work culture to better reflect societal norms and the rapidly changing world we operate in, supporting more inclusive, human-cantered approaches to work.
Dr. Jo Mutter, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Jo is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Auckland. Drawing on her experience across accounting, banking, management consulting, and academia, Jo brings a practical perspective to her research and engagement with industry. Her research examines how employees navigate careers across changing work arrangements, family dynamics, and geographic boundaries. Jo’s goal is to help HR leaders build more effective, sustainable workplace practices.
