For decades, MIT Sloan Professor Lotte Bailyn has been calling for changes in the way work is organized -- often in ways that have proven prescient.

New research by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers and two coauthors finds that having certain kinds of tasks in a job description allows new employees, including frontline workers, to earn more.

Zach Tan, a first-year doctoral student in the Economic Sociology research group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2024 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award.