Spring 2023 IWER Newsletter Available Online
Read the Spring 2023 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
Read the Spring 2023 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
The Journal of the International Ombuds Association (JIOA) has announced plans for a special issue focused on the scholarly contributions of MIT Sloan Adjunct Professor Mary P. Rowe and their impact on our understanding of the ombuds profession.
Ahead of the presidential inauguration, MIT Sloan's Professor Andrew Lo and other panelists described advances in their research and how these discoveries are being deployed to benefit the public.
Platform co-founded by a Sloanie taps the wisdom of crowds to label medical data for AI companies.
MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of the winners of the LERA (Labor and Employment Relations Association) 2023 John T. Dunlop Scholar Award. This award recognizes outstanding academic research contributions that address industrial relations and employment problems of national significance, a...
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In an effort to attract a diverse pool of talented candidates, many contemporary U.S. employers seek to craft gender-neutral job postings by editing language in the postings that may have masculine or feminine connotations. But how much difference do such practices make in reality? Not that much, su...
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How can work be improved for both employees and organizations? This question is central to the work of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), which began as the Industrial Relations Section of the MIT Department of Economics and Social Science in 1937.
New research by MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman finds more than one in ten U.S. workers are contract employees—and that they earn less on average than comparable employees in standard jobs and receive less company-provided training.
Is working from home good for employees? New research finds that the answer depends on the circumstances—and in particular, whether at-home work is replacing time in the office or adding to it.
A summary report from a multistakeholder dialogue on U.S. worker voice and representation held December 1-2, 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts