Andrew Minster, a doctoral student in MIT Sloan’s Institute for Work and Employment Research program, has won the 2020 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award for a proposal to study the experience of grocery workers during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Through this MIT Sloan Action Learning class, students collaborate with community-based nonprofit organization to tackle economic development and societal challenges.
In a new article in The Hill, MIT Sloan faculty members Thomas Kochan and Barbara Dyer explore the question of what society owes employees doing essential jobs during the pandemic.
In a new column for Newsweek , MIT Sloan Professor Paul Osterman is calling for support for education for essential workers serving during the COVID-19 crisis.
MIT Sloan doctoral candidate Alex Kowalski is working on a research project with two members of the MIT Sloan faculty, Erin L. Kelly and Hazhir Rahmandad, to see if jobs in warehouses can be improved in ways that benefit both companies and employees.
In a presentation on March 31, MIT Sloan Professor Thomas Kochan explored the following question: What can we learn from the COVID-19 crisis to make our economy, our society, and the future of work more resilient, productive, inclusive, and fair?
In an new esssay that first appeared on The Conversation website, Professor Thomas Kochan says workers need more input into the U.S. policy response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a new op-ed published by Fortune, MIT Sloan Professor Erin Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen make the case that allowing employees more flexibility about where they work, which many companies are doing because of the coronavirus, can be beneficial to employees and companies in the long run.
