Future of Work

Expanding Benefits and Protections for Today’s Workers: California’s AB5 Brings Attention to Classification

California’s AB5 redefines employment, expands benefits and protections to more workers, and paves the way for additional policy innovations.

October 9, 2019

International Approaches to Disruption: Potential Lessons for U.S. Policymakers Considering Responses to Automation

Around the world, countries are taking a variety of approaches to upskilling workers and helping them adjust to the transitions that automation, and other economic disruptions, bring about in the workplace.

October 1, 2019

What’s new at the Economic Opportunities Program, September 2019

Learn how we’re helping low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.

September 30, 2019
Steven Greenhouse

Improving Training Quality Through Community College Investments and Income Share Agreements

In Automation and a Changing Economy, the Future of Work Initiative proposes improving training quality through community college investments and income share agreements.

September 20, 2019

Encouraging Employers to Engage Workers in Automation Decision-Making by Promoting Worker Voice

In Automation and a Changing Economy, the Future of Work Initiative proposes encouraging employers to engage workers in automation decision-making by promoting worker voice.

September 3, 2019

What kind of future of work will we choose for America’s working families?

We need to work toward a common goal of good jobs. Here is what’s at stake for working families.

September 2, 2019
Child on a scooter wearing an American flag as a cape

The Changing Nature of Work

Roundtable led by MIT Work of the Future and the Future of Work Initiative examines how work is changing and the systems and supports necessary to meet the challenges in the 21st century.

August 29, 2019

What’s new at the Economic Opportunities Program, August 2019

Learn how we’re helping low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.

August 29, 2019

What Do We Know About Americans’ Attitude Toward Automation?

Recent polls and surveys shed light on the question of how Americans are perceiving the impact of automation on their work and wellbeing.

August 22, 2019

What’s new at the Economic Opportunities Program, July 2019

Learn how we’re helping low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.

July 31, 2019
Panel of speakers at “What’s in Store? The Future of Retail Work(ers)," presented by the Economic Opportunities Program and Pacific Community Ventures in San Francisco