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.

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.

Centre news

  • Government workers prioritise wellbeing over pay

    • Social Affairs
    • Business
    • Politics

    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
  • Australia is on the brink of a wellbeing recession

    • Health
    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
  • Industry leaders to boost Centre for the New Workforce

    • University

    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
  • Strategy absent from hybrid working approaches: new research

    • Business

    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
  • Hybrid or the highway for Australian workers: Swinburne research

    • Business

    Centre for the New Workforce research shows that almost every worker wants to work flexibly post-COVID, but that hybrid working is already impacting workplace connection and wellbeing.

    Wednesday 20 October 2021

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Call 1300 633 560 or email edge@swinburne.edu.au.

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