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 @_elkelly 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

Starting in the early 1980s,“there was a clear division between winners and losers in the [U.S.] economy, and the losers were blue-collar white men largely,” Thomas A. Kochan MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management told the The New York Times: tinyurl.com/mxh562dd

The new Fall MIT IWER newsletter is now available online, and the theme is research on "What Helps—or Hinders—Career Progress." Read the newsletter here: tinyurl.com/3h65bdxk

Many working Americans struggle to get by on low pay. New research from Dylan Nelson Gies Business, Nathan Wilmers MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management & Letian (LT) Zhang @HBS sheds light on the kinds of jobs tasks that contribute to higher pay for frontline workers: tinyurl.com/4avywf7x

“I am dreadfully worried about the deep, deep divisions in our society,” said Thomas A. Kochan MIT IWER at a recent faculty panel discussion MIT Sloan School of Management about the potential impacts of the U.S. election on jobs and the economy: tinyurl.com/yc77ek59

MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson say good jobs and the equitable deployment of technology can help restore people’s faith in democratic institutions. bit.ly/3Y9KLry

How the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Helped Women’s Careers: New Research from Eunmi Mun; Shawna Vican; & @_elkelly MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management: tinyurl.com/3rvw49bw

Whose jobs are at risk during a transition to clean energy? Highlights of an MIT IWER seminar MIT Sloan School of Management, featuring Christopher Knittel Climate Policy Center: tinyurl.com/59hdj97d

How can minimum wage non-compliance be countered with good policy? Using the case of the US and the UK, Anna Stansbury MIT Sloan School of Management MIT IWER argues that improved enforcement alone is insufficient and expected penalties must increase substantially. doi.org/10.1177/001979…

Nobel laureate Simon Johnson says that AI can be an equalizing force, but warns that new technology does not automatically benefit everyone. bit.ly/3VzGVHy

What happens to companies who get more powerful institutional shareholders? CEO pay falls by a cumulative 60% over 5 years Top execs by 40% Striking endorsement of the view that strong shareholders help solve the principal agent problem Paper by Falato, Kim & Till von Wachter

Richard Locke, PhD ’89, a prominent scholar and academic administrator with a wide range of leadership experience, has been named the new dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. bit.ly/4j2hb0C

MIT IWER is delighted to offer a warm welcome home to Richard M. Locke, newly announced as the incoming Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management. news.mit.edu/2025/richard-l…

Looking for ways to foster workplace well-being in 2025? We've updated the "Work Design for Health" free employer toolkit created by researchers from MIT IWER and Harvard Pop Center (@HarvardPopCenter on bsky). Learn more: tinyurl.com/9z9x5dkf

A new edition of the MIT IWER newsletter is now available online. The theme is "Building an Economy that Works for Everyone." Read it here: mailchi.mp/mit/building-a…

In a Charter interview (behind a paywall), Erin Kelly MIT IWER MIT Sloan School of Management discusses her new research findings: Establishing a health & well-being committee as a channel for worker voice “reduced turnover significantly” in the warehouses studied: tinyurl.com/yc5cz4ys

In this piece, I explain why a high-productivity, high-dignity service sector is essential for the United States and offer specific ideas for how to build and strengthen it. hbr.org/2025/05/buildi…

"There are more Americans working at Walmart than in all U.S. auto factories combined….The future of the middle class depends much more on the jobs that already surround us—service jobs—than on manufacturing jobs." — Zeynep Ton MIT Sloan School of Management, in Harvard Business Review: tinyurl.com/2y2bxwj8

The Surprising Potential of Health & Well-Being Committees: Research by Erin Kelly MIT Sloan School of Management et al. found that forming committees where warehouse workers could share workplace health & well-being concerns reduced employee turnover & improved mental health. tinyurl.com/y4pej88v