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Human Resources and Work

Research on Human Resources, Work, and DEI
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Seeing less can help us make fairer decisions
Years of research conclude that even if your organization doesn’t have a “blinding” policy for hiring (and other people evaluations), you should do it…
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Carlos Alvarenga
Should you welcome back a former employee?
A first-of-its-kind study measures performance and turnover of boomerang employees compared to internal and external hires
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Carlos Alvarenga
Will the pandemic change capitalism? Our eventual return to the office may give us the answer
The workspace has always been a mirror of our conception of capitalism, and the pandemic may force capitalism to evolve yet again
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Carlos Alvarenga
The class ceiling: the role of privilege in career selection and progression
A five-year U.K. study exposes the subtle and powerful ways that class and privilege influence hiring and success in elite professional settings
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Carlos Alvarenga
Youthfuls, Matures, and Veterans: Understanding subjective age in late-career employees
Novel research begins to look at how late-career employees see themselves and their abilities at work — an important topic as more older workers remain…
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Carlos Alvarenga
Employee burnout is the pandemic's invisible workplace legacy
The pandemic did not create burnout, but new research shows that it made an already bad problem worse — a condition that will continue even after the…
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Carlos Alvarenga
Working from home has been a bad deal for companies and workers
New research concludes that working from home during the COVID-19 crisis lowered productivity, as people put in longer hours just to keep up with past…
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Carlos Alvarenga
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