Optimax Systems, Inc., located in upstate New York, is a privately held precision optics manufacturer whose mission is to enable both customer success and employee prosperity.
A good job is a way out of poverty. With that idea in mind, Barbara Dyer has for decades been focused on good jobs—and, in particular, how organizations can create more of them for workers.
The August 2025 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research is now available online. The title of this issue of the IWER newsletter is "'The Meritocracy Paradox' and More: New Works from IWER Researchers."
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What happens when manufacturing companies regularly incorporate worker feedback and ideas into their production processes? New research coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Nathan Wilmers finds that productivity is generally higher—and so is production worker pay.
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.
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2023 marked the 50th anniversary of Mary P. Rowe’s tenure at MIT, where she began as the Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor for Women and Work—a role that evolved into an early organizational ombuds, listening to workplace concerns, from both men and women, throughout the Institute.
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.
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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.
In an essay for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly reflects on America's job-quality crisis and how to address it.
