Teacher workload and the organisation of work: a research agenda for a post-pandemic future

School teachers are working in highly complex and demanding work environments. Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted usual ways of working for teachers, intensifying work demands through a sudden shift in the delivery of education and pressures to upskill in using new technologies. Yet how this unique crisis event has augmented teachers' work and workload remains less known. This Research Insight contributes to understanding developments in the organisation and delivery of teachers' work arising from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as novel research pathways for addressing the teacher workload 'problem' in the aftermath of the pandemic in ways that protect teachers' 'core work'.