MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman explains the importance of developing industry-specific strategies to improve the jobs of low-wage workers.
A new “Work Design for Health” framework and employer toolkit—developed by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management—map how to create work environments that foster worker health and well-being.
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.
“Work Lab: Building Better Jobs," a new MIT Sloan class for MBA students and other MIT graduate students, will be offered for the first time in spring 2026. Taught by Ben Armstrong, Director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center, the half-semester course will teach students to model, evaluate, a...
This script is designed to accompany training presentations for the co-leads of a new Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC). A Health and Well-being Committee (HaWC) is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a channel to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. The H...
The December 2025 issue of the newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The theme is "Insights on Upward Economic Mobility."
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Paul Osterman’s book Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
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...
To combat the negative effects of climate change, making a transition to green energy is vital. But what will happen to people whose jobs are significantly linked to fossil fuel use? And what policy options are available to mitigate the employment effects of such a transition? That was a question ex...
How will the U.S. election affect jobs and the economy? That was the topic of a panel discussion held October 29th, 2024 at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The event, which was sponsored by the MIT Sloan People and Organizations Club and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER...
