Delighted to see The Case for Good Jobs among other terrific books. thanks Andrew Hill!

Are you working to train people for new careers or create good jobs in the climate and infrastructure industries The Families and Workers Fund is awarding flexible grants to boost workforce projects. Apply by January 19th: https:// familiesandworkers.org/challenge

How Low-Wage Women Navigate Unemployment: Some highlights from a recent MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management doctoral dissertation by Claire C. McKenna, now at U.S. Department of Labor: tinyurl.com/4v4vy2tx

New research by Lisa Berkman Harvard Pop Center, Erin Kelly MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management, et al. finds that improving work-life balance & increasing workplace flexibility reduces cardiovascular disease risk for higher-risk employees: tinyurl.com/2ndwbexu

The December IWER newsletter is now available online; this month's theme is "Women and Work." Read the newsletter here: tinyurl.com/597w6vja

"You’ve got to put employees’ personal needs out front and deal with them at the same time that you’re dealing with the organizational strategies and structures.” – Lotte Bailyn, professor emerita MIT Sloan School of Management tinyurl.com/mr29kyfh

Could private equity improve workers' job quality? Not without “a massive shift in what private equity firms have traditionally done,” Thomas A. Kochan MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management told The Job newsletter; he noted private equity's “track record of negative effects.” tinyurl.com/3vrf5syk

“We still don’t have enough respect for the work that frontline employees do, from factories to retail stores to health care settings. That’s one of the reasons why people are fed up and looking for other opportunities. It’s what we’re trying to change.” news.mit.edu/2024/nonprofit…

The Link Between Worker Voice on the Job and Job Quality: New research from Dra. Yaminette, Arrow (Andrew) Minster, they/them, Thomas A. Kochan MIT IWER & Duanyi Yang, park @Cornellilr: tinyurl.com/ymc7pnmy

In the market for a new job? mary rowe MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management offers classic advice on preparing to negotiate with an employer: tinyurl.com/mtyarfvw

Paying market rate “might be great for soybeans, but maybe not for people when [poverty-level] pay reduces their…mental health, physical health, and cognitive functioning,” --Zeynep Ton MIT Sloan School of Management: tinyurl.com/543he67p

Kudos to Thomas A. Kochan MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management! He has just been named one of the Charter 30—a list of “30 cutting-edge researchers, visionary leaders, and outside-the-box innovators who are helping us understand and reimagine the modern workplace.” tinyurl.com/3j5b54t8

Don't miss the new MIT IWER newsletter, now available online; this issue's theme is "Generative AI and the Future of Work": mailchi.mp/dd82ba1d0b55/g…

3 Steps Managers Can Take to Empower Workers: New research from MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management alum Allen Minster, now an asst. professor SF State: tinyurl.com/9ukxkr6f

Check out the new issue of IWER's newsletter, now available online. This issue's theme is worker voice and empowerment: mailchi.mp/f92ce9402716/w…

Ten years ago Market Basket employees walked out and won a 6-week battle to reinstate their CEO and save their store as a great place to work and to shop. Today's workers, executives, and policy makers should pause and learn from the Market Basket case. x.com/MIT_IWER/statu…

It appears contract company employees suffer earnings penalty and receive less training than workers on standard employment contract according to Paul Osterman! Read this article to know how racial and ethnic disparities further complicate this inequality. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

In a new TED Talks video, Zeynep Ton MIT Sloan School of Management makes the case for improving frontline service-sector jobs: tinyurl.com/3zc9jfvh

When stakeholders become more involved in generative AI design and implementation, it’s more likely that such tools will augment work rather than displace workers. mitsloan.co/3WfPEhH

New Harvard Business Review article quotes Erin Kelly MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management, on the benefits of letting teams redesign work processes to reduce #overload: “It really signals respect for workers’ whole lives and for them having a say in how they put their days together.” tinyurl.com/2jdwxu38