Future of Work
At MIT Sloan, we’re leading the future of work. Through research and classroom teaching, we explore the technologies, systems, and leadership styles that profoundly affect organizations and workers everywhere. The MIT Sloan Work and Organization Studies Group studies what workers will need to succeed in jobs of the future and what leaders need to know to manage complex organizations and diverse teams; the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research explores how work can be improved for both workers and organizations; and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy examines how people and companies can adapt to new ways of doing business. Courses taught by our faculty and coaching offered by the MIT Leadership Center help students gain the fundamental knowledge of organizational structures and processes and develop the necessary skills to lead the workforce of the future.
Choose the human path for AI
To realize the greatest gains from artificial intelligence, we must make the future of work more human, not less.
AI hiring perpetuates familiar biases. Here’s how to avoid that trap
The AI hiring revolution doesn’t have to be a story of automated bias, argues MIT Sloan’s Emilio J. Castilla. Tough questions and constant monitoring can lead to fairer systems.
10 quotes for business and management from 2025
These insights from business leaders, scholars, and scientists captured the business mood in 2025.
December 2025 Issue of IWER Newsletter Now Available Online
The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
MIT Sloan reading list: 8 books from 2025
New books this year cover ecosystems, entrepreneurship, dynamic work design, and the paradox of meritocracy.
AI’s missing ingredient: Shared wisdom
We are in the fourth wave of artificial intelligence. In his new book, Alex Pentland says understanding AI from the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s can help us develop technology that supports shared wisdom.
For manufacturers, listening to workers pays off in productivity
Companies that act on input from front-line employees pay their workers more and experience a productivity bump that offsets those costs.
New MIT Sloan Action Learning Course Offering: “Work Lab: Building Better Jobs”
“Work Lab: Building Better Jobs," a new MIT Sloan class for MBA students and other MIT graduate students, will be offered for the first time in spring 2026. Taught by Ben Armstrong, Director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, the half-semester course will teach students to model, evaluate, a...
Who benefits from AI? New comic explores technology’s impact on labor
Download “Power and Progress: The Mini-Comic!” for free. A new comic book adapts MIT Nobel Prize-winning economists’ work on how AI affects workers and shared prosperity.
How artificial intelligence impacts the US labor market
New research from MIT Sloan shows that companies can see substantial gains by putting AI to work — with that growth translating into jobs.