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.
Hint: They Involve food.
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.
New Report on U.S. Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions
While an MIT Sloan doctoral candidate, Alex Kowalski researched practical ways to improve jobs in an increasingly important industry.
In this September 2020 statement, the faculty leaders of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan call for significant changes to benefit U.S. workers.
The future of work will include remote work, but that isn’t all there is to the hybrid model.
MIT Sloan faculty member Nathan Wilmers has won the 2021 ASQ Dissertation Award.
California’s new Fast Food Council law could encourage fast food restaurant owners in the state to improve job quality for workers and follow what’s known as a “high-road” employment strategy, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Tom Kochan argued in a recent article for Fortune.com.
What happens to company profits, wages, and consumer prices when union membership becomes more affordable for employees? That’s a question posed in an interesting working paper by Samuel Dodini, MIT Sloan Professor Anna Stansbury, and Alexander Willén.
