Labor
Ideas and insights about labor from MIT Sloan.
The business benefits of a workplace health and well-being committee
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HaWCs can be a cost-effective way to reduce turnover among front-line employees and save your organization money.
A new look at how automation changes the value of labor
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Automation replaces experts in some occupations while augmenting expertise in others, according to a new MIT study.
How to lead tech professionals and teams
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Keeping your technology workforce operating at peak performance is critical to digital business success. Here’s how to motivate and manage tech workers.
These human capabilities complement AI’s shortcomings
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The work tasks that AI is least likely to replace are those that depend on uniquely human capacities, such as empathy, judgment, ethics, and hope.
Workers need good jobs. The climate sector can help
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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.
5 issues to consider as AI reshapes work
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Experts say those making decisions about AI should engage proactively with policymakers and consider worker voice and well-being.
How to use generative AI to augment your workforce
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Artificial intelligence can be useful in the workplace, but humans have to first define what success looks like, according to MIT Sloan’s Danielle Li.
FMLA may be weak, but it does help women advance in the workforce
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Researchers studied the effects the Family and Medical Leave Act had after its passage in 1993. Here’s where it drove change.
How AI-empowered ‘citizen developers’ drive digital transformation
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A new book explains how organizations are tapping AI-savvy front-line employees to create applications, mobile apps, automated workflows, and data analyses.
The rise of the union-curious worker, and how to win them over
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In the U.S., front-line workers’ attitudes toward unions are softening, especially among people under 30. Here’s what they want from their workplaces.