Read the Spring 2023 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research
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MIT Sloan Adjunct Professor Mary P. Rowe, a pioneer in the organizational ombuds profession, has made many of the articles she has written over her career freely available on her personal webpages at MIT Sloan.
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Career ladders within organizations are often seen as one way to create opportunities for low-wage workers to move into better-paying jobs. But, in practice, how common is it for low-wage workers in the U.S. to benefit economically from moving to a new job within the same organization?
What can we learn from the way management and labor leaders in Germany are working together to address the future impacts of technology on business and the workplace? In this article, Thomas A. Kochan, Wilma B. Liebman, and Inez von Weitershausen draw on insights from a September 2018 event on this ...
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MIT Sloan MBA student Riddhima Sharma shares insights learned from a panel at MIT Sloan on "Managing with Fairness: The Role of People Analytics."
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.
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If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? New research sheds light on that question.
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Nick Brenner was looking forward to traveling to Leon County, Florida in March to do fieldwork as part of MIT Sloan’s USA Lab class. Then the pandemic hit—and those plans changed.
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The Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan asked Elisabeth B. Reynolds, the Executive Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and one of the authors of that Task Force's recent report, to summarize some of the report's most important points.
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In a recent paper, MIT Sloan’s Paul Osterman finds evidence that companies have choices about the wages they pay, and that some companies can be successful through “High Road” employment practices that result in better-quality jobs. But it's not at all clear, he concludes, that such High Road employ...
