IWER Research Highlighted
The MIT Sloan website recently published several brief articles focusing on work by IWER faculty members.
The MIT Sloan website recently published several brief articles focusing on work by IWER faculty members.
Thomas A. Kochan, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, have been awarded $225,000 in grant funding from the research network WorkRise to conduct a multi-...
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.
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From a new climate policy center to slow fashion and circular plastic, MIT Sloan is at the cutting edge of innovation.
This policy brief explains the results of a new analysis from the MIT Climate Policy Center that found that investment tax credits for transmission projects can lower costs for the US power system while simultaneously improving the grid's reliability during extreme weather events and reducing green...