The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is delighted to warmly welcome back Richard (Rick) M. Locke, who is the newly announced incoming Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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.

Palak Shah has been named a Senior Fellow at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) for the 2024-2025 academic year.

At a presentation at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research seminar, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Emerita Lotte Bailyn and three additional experts discussed a new book Bailyn coauthored, "Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You."

MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health and Well-Being Committees that allow employees to give input on workplace issues significantly reduc...

Until recently, the link between having a say in the workplace and workers’ job satisfaction and well-being had not been empirically demonstrated by researchers. Now, a new journal article coauthored by scholars from the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) addresses that question.

Read the Spring 2023 newsletter of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research

How do women in low-wage service-sector jobs respond to unemployment? That's a question Claire C. McKenna explored in her recent doctoral dissertation in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) PhD program.

Do policies that it easier for employees to juggle work and family needs increase the ability of women to advance in organizations? New research from Eunmi Mun, Shawna Vican, and MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly suggests that was indeed the case with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the U...

During an event at the MIT Sloan School, MIT Sloan Professor of the Practice Zeynep Ton spoke about her recent book, “The Case for Good Jobs."