While an MIT Sloan doctoral candidate, Alex Kowalski researched practical ways to improve jobs in an increasingly important industry.
New Report on U.S. Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions
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But recent research suggests that such wellness programs often have limited effectiveness. To truly build a healthier future of work, employers will need to address how their own management practices contribute to employee ill health—and focus on changing those.
Companies can redesign work to make it healthier for employees and, in the process, help decrease employee turnover.
To outcompete Big Oil, the clean energy industry needs to unionize.
Whispers about unionization in the video game industry go back at least a decade. Despite the furor and conversation that piece kicked off, the industry has largely been resistant to unionization.
WorkRise has published a new report that reviews and synthesizes academic research on employer practices that foster economic mobility for disadvantaged workers. The report, "Employer Practices and Worker Outcomes: A Landscape Report," was coauthored by faculty affiliated with the MIT Institute for ...
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In surveys conducted since 2018, a larger share of nonunionized U.S. workers than in previous decades report they are neither supportive of or opposed to voting for a union in their workplace. Instead, these workers are uncertain. That’s one of the key findings of a new report published by the Econ...
MIT Sloan School of Management Associate Professor Nathan Wilmers is one of 23 members of the MIT faculty who recently received MIT’s Committed to Caring award for 2023-25. The Committed to Caring program recognizes MIT faculty members who are exceptional mentors to graduate students.
MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), has received the 2024 Ellen Galinsky Generative Researcher Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network.
