What factors make it easier—or harder—for workers, particularly those in low-wage jobs, to achieve upward economic mobility and better employment opportunities? The following collection of links highlights some of the research and analysis related to this topic that has been conducted in recent ye...
The past several years have seen an upsurge of worker activism in the United States and with it, an increasing interest in the concept of worker voice—that is, efforts by workers, either individually or collectively, to have a say on workplace issues that matter to them. This collection of links hi...
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.
A Health and Well-being Committee, or HaWC, is a new form of participatory program that gives employees a chance to voice concerns and ideas for improving the workplace. Developed by researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the HaWC model ...
In this December 2023 working paper, MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan and five additional co-authors from MIT identify ways to bring workers’ voices into the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Can giving low-wage workers more of a voice on the job improve their mental health? A just-published paper in the American Journal of Public Health finds signs that the answer may be “yes.”
Zana Buçinca, a scholar whose research interests include human-AI interaction and the future of work, will be joining the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) in the fall of 2026 when she joins the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Work and Organization Studies group ...
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.
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.
Meritocracy has become an increasingly popular term. But MIT Sloan Professor Emilio J. Castilla explains in The European Business Review that saying an organization is meritocratic can increase bias.
