Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте.

It is in the prepositional case.

• Dictionary form: рабочее место = workplace / workstation
• In the sentence: на рабочем месте

This happens because на often takes the prepositional case when it means location: on / at / in somewhere.

So:

• рабочее место → nominative
• на рабочем месте → prepositional

You can think of it as:

• где? = where?
• на рабочем месте = at the workplace / at the workstation

Because both the adjective and the noun must change to match the prepositional singular.

Base form:

• рабочее место
  • рабочее = adjective, neuter singular nominative
  • место = noun, neuter singular nominative

After на in a location meaning:

• на рабочем месте
  • рабочем = adjective, neuter singular prepositional
  • месте = noun, neuter singular prepositional

This is normal agreement in Russian: the adjective changes together with the noun.

Russian usually does not use a present-tense verb meaning to be in simple sentences like this.

Instead of saying something like The badge is at the workplace, Russian often uses a verb that describes the object's position:

• лежит = is lying
• стоит = is standing
• висит = is hanging

So Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте literally suggests:

• The badge is lying on the workstation / at the workplace

In natural English, this may simply be translated as:

• The badge is on the desk
• The badge is at the workstation
• The badge is lying at the workplace

depending on context.

Лежит is the 3rd person singular form of лежать.

It usually means:

• to lie
• to be lying
• to be located lying down / resting on a surface

For objects, Russian often chooses a positional verb based on how the object is placed:

• книга лежит на столе = The book is lying on the table
• бутылка стоит на столе = The bottle is standing on the table
• картина висит на стене = The picture is hanging on the wall

With бейдж, лежит suggests the badge is resting somewhere, probably on a desk or work surface.

Yes, in some contexts, but the nuance changes.

• Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте = the badge is physically lying there
• Бейдж находится на рабочем месте = the badge is located there

Находится sounds more neutral, formal, or impersonal.
Лежит sounds more concrete and physical.

So if you want to describe the badge's actual position on a surface, лежит is very natural.

Yes, бейдж is a Russian word, but it is a loanword from English badge.

In modern Russian, бейдж usually means:

• a name badge
• an ID badge
• a conference badge

Grammatically, it is:

• masculine
• inanimate

Its nominative singular form is:

• бейдж

Examples:

• новый бейдж = a new badge
• у меня нет бейджа = I don't have a badge

In Russian, many nouns ending in a consonant are treated as masculine.

Since бейдж ends in a consonant sound, it follows the common masculine pattern.

So you get forms like:

• бейдж лежит
• новый бейдж
• этот бейдж

Even though the object itself has no biological gender, Russian grammar still assigns it a grammatical gender.

Рабочее место literally means work place or work spot, but in real usage it often means:

• workstation
• desk
• assigned work area
• place of work

So depending on context, на рабочем месте can mean:

• at the workstation
• at the desk
• at one’s place of work
• on the work desk / in the work area

The exact English translation depends on the situation.

Because Russian has no articles.

English distinguishes:

• a badge
• the badge

Russian usually does not mark that difference directly.
So бейдж could mean:

• a badge
• the badge

Context tells you which one is meant.

The same is true for рабочем месте:

• at a workplace
• at the workplace
• at the workstation

Russian leaves that to context.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте.

But you could also say:

• На рабочем месте лежит бейдж.

That version puts more focus on where the badge is.

Very roughly:

• Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте. = neutral statement about the badge
• На рабочем месте лежит бейдж. = emphasis on the location

The meaning stays basically the same, but the emphasis changes.

A helpful approximation is:

• Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте
• BYEYJ lye-ZHEET na ra-BO-chyem MYES-tye

Important stress:

• бЕйдж
• лежИт
• рабОчем
• мЕсте

A few notes:

• ж sounds like the s in measure
• е after a soft consonant often sounds roughly like ye
• лежит has stress on the last syllable

No. In fact, on the workplace is usually not the best English translation.

Russian на is broader than English on.
Here, на рабочем месте usually means:

• at the workplace
• at the workstation
• at the desk
• in the work area

So even though the Russian preposition is на, the most natural English preposition may be at or in, not necessarily on.

Because the phrase refers to one workplace / one workstation / one work spot.

• место = place, spot
• места = places

So:

• на рабочем месте = at the workplace / at the workstation
• на рабочих местах = at the workplaces / at the workstations

In this sentence, only one place is meant.

Yes, very often.

In Russian, рабочее место can mean not just place of employment in a general sense, but a specific assigned area such as:

• a desk
• a computer station
• a cashier’s spot
• a seat in an office
• a technician’s bench

So Бейдж лежит на рабочем месте may suggest:

• The badge is on the person’s desk/workstation
• The badge is at their assigned work spot

That is often more natural than the broad English phrase at the workplace.