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."
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...
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.
In an October 2024 article for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan School Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan and UC San Diego Professor John S. Ahlquist explain the steps involved in forming a union.
MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) co-leads this executive education Course with MIT Professors David Autor and Sandy Pentland.
In a new podcast, MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury explains her research on the links between the decline in U.S. workers’ power in recent decades and increasing income inequality.
Most executives today understand that if their companies are to thrive in an increasingly competitive and dynamic marketplace, they must hire and retain the most talented employees.
At the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), faculty from MIT Sloan and other departments across the Institute are educating a new generation of researchers to reinvent the ways we work.
