VI. Resources

Work and Wellbeing Initiative – a joint Harvard and MIT research-for-action initiative

Workplace Culture and Care Report – Care.com

The Caring Company: How employers can help their employees manage their caregiving responsibilities—while reducing costs and increasing productivity – Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman, Harvard Business School

Back to Work Safely – American Industrial Hygiene Association

From Ideal Worker to Ideal Workplace – TimesUp and ideas42

Better Work Toolkit, a Science-based approach to designing work-life solutions that work – Better Life Lab at New America and ideas42

#NowWhat: The Sexual Harassment Solutions Toolkit – Better Life Lab at New America

Breaking the Bias: How Gender Equality will transform economies, business and finance – Moody’s

How to Improve Gender Equality in the Workplace — evidence-based actions for employers – The U.K.’s government’s Behavioral Insights Team

Hybrid Work Best Practices Guide – a joint product of the Better Life Lab at New America and the Center for Work-Life Law. For more, check out their evidence-based Bias Interrupters series.

Remote Work Revolution for Everyone – free online course taught by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neely

Why Working from Home Will Stick – NBER paper by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom & Steven J. Davis

Work Trends Index Report – Microsoft

Leveling the Playing Field in the Hybrid Workplace – Slack Future Forum Pulse

Pulse of the American Worker Survey– Prudential

Digital Workplaces and the Hybrid Work Model – Deloitte

It’s Time to Get Real About Hybrid – McKinsey

The Asana Playbook for Managing Distributed Teams – Asana

How to do Hybrid Right – Lynda Gratton, Harvard Business Review

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future – Julia Hobsbawm

Tips for Managers: Making Hybrid Work – Boston College Center for Work and Family

A Better Future for Working Parents: A Playbook for Leaders and Organizations – Charter

STAR – Support. Transform. Achieve. Results – family-supportive supervisor training & research- Ellen Ernst-Kossek & Leslie Hammer, the Work Family & Health Network

Elevate Employees, Don’t Eliminate Them: Unlock value by connecting them with customers – Ryan W. Buell, Harvard Business Review

Good Jobs Strategy – Good Jobs Institute

Retailers are Squandering their Most Potent Weapons – Marshall Fisher et al, Harvard Business Review

Essential Workers comprise about half of all workers in low-paid occupations. They deserve a $15 minimum wage – Molly Kinder, Laura Stateler, Brookings

Building from the Bottom Up – Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Harvard Business School

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