MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Erin L. Kelly is one of three winners of the 2025 Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) Academic Fellows Award; in addition, two alumni of the IWER PhD program, Janice R. Fine and Andrew Weaver, also won LERA awards this year.
The executive director of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management explains recent research on what’s gone wrong for U.S. workers — and what can be done about it.
An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched.
“7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being,” a new article by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and three colleagues from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was published this week on the website of Harvard Business Review.
A number of faculty members from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have expressed their support for a new statement defining the attributes of a good job in today’s economy.
The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is delighted to warmly welcome back Richard (Rick) M. Locke, who is the newly announced incoming Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
What factors explain the large differences in employment rates and wages between men and women in South Korea? That’s a question explored in a paper by MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of the German Marshall Fund, and Harvard University Professor Karen Dynan that w...
If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? That’s the question explored in an intriguing new journal article by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, William Kimball of ...
Three members of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) have received seed grants from MIT to produce papers exploring some of the societal impacts of generative artificial intelligence.
Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen argue in "Overload" that, in many of today's professional and managerial jobs, "the way we work is not sustainable." The reasons include long hours, multitasking, and pressure to be always available via digital technologies yet also in the office for "face time" during th...
