In a new interview, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly shares insights from her forthcoming book, with Phyllis Moen of the University of Minnesota, on overload in the workplace.
Susan Silbey and Lotte Bailyn, two MIT faculty members affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Invited guests attended a special event at the new MIT Museum location in Kendall Square in early December.
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MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has coauthored dozens of scholarly articles related to well-being in the workplace, with a particular focus on examining the effects of flexible scheduling initiatives on various measu...
The Spring 2025 newsletter from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is now available online.
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This collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis on work and well-being that has been conducted in recent years by scholars affiliated with the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) and their colleagues at other universities.
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A recent MIT Sloan doctoral dissertation sheds light on three steps managers can take to empower workers who have ideas about improving the workplace.
MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla’s new book, "The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them," will be published soon by Columbia University Press and is now available for preorder.
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A Health and Well-being Committee, or HaWC, is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a chance to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. Developed by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the HaWC model ...
