What is the future of work?

Work and workplaces are changing rapidly. Learn what's next from MIT Sloan experts.
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IWER is a multidisciplinary and highly collaborative hub for the study of work and employment
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The Stone Center applies economics research to identify innovative ways to move the labor market onto a more equitable trajectory.
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This course prepare you, and your organization, for an evolving workplace as it investigates its impact on social, legal, and economic policy.

I think, at its most generous, AI tools enable us to learn from our collective actions ... What AI tools do is they take all of those solutions, those attempts—whether good or bad—and use them as training data to build models.
Danielle Li

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology; Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management


The rise of generative AI is a real opportunity, but making the most of it will demand a new approach to decision-making, as well as a new focus on worker training, fair transitions, and effective policy.
Thomas Kochan

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus; Professor of Human Resources and Management, Emeritus


Combinations of humans and AI work best when each party can do the thing they do better than the other.
Thomas W. Malone

Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management; Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Professor, Information Technology
 

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Growing out of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force (2018-2020), the Work of the Future Initiative at the Industrial Performance Center conducts multidisciplinary research on the ways technology is changing work.
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MIT experts share strategies to transform skills, roles, and human potential across your organization.
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INM is an MIT-wide effort that drives research, education, and collaborations to transform the future of manufacturing in the United States and beyond.

The Future of Work

Unions have a chance to win over workers under 30. To succeed, they must broaden their scope, says labor expert Thomas Kochan.
The Quantum Index Report from MIT documents a growing demand for quantum skills and emerging efforts to train a quantum workforce.
The U.S. is experiencing a crisis around job quality. Emerging climate jobs can give workers a living wage, health care, and safe working conditions.
Media: CIO
AI works best not when it replaces humans, but when it augments them. As professor Thomas W. Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, puts it: "Combinations of humans and AI work best when each party can do the thing they do better than the other."

Faculty Publications

Senior lecturer Phil Budden and associate dean for innovation Fiona Murray provide a practical guide to engaging with the five key stakeholders in an innovation ecosystem.
MIT Sloan professor Emilio J. Castilla offers practical solutions to help organizations build fairer, more effective people management practices.
In their book, “Power and Progress,” Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu, Institute professor, and Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan professor, ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.
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