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E-commerce warehouse data offers insight into worker behavior

ILR researcher finds that even when working independently, with no group incentives and no time to communicate, employees in an e-commerce warehouse responded to performance-related cues from nearby peers.
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E-commerce warehouse data offers insight into worker behavior

ILR Trio Secures Grant to Help Workers With Job Transitions

Cornell Chronicle
Michèle Belot, JR Keller and Philipp Kircher are part of a team that will help workers transition to new positions in the AI economy by using AI to transform job duties into practice activities for job candidates before interviews.
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ILR Trio Secures Grant to Help Workers With Job Transitions

The Good Cornellians Can Do: Scott Alter ’01

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Scott Alter '01 has led his company, Standard Communities, to become one of the largest affordable housing owners in the country, with more than 30,000 units across 22 states and more than 160 employees.
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The Good Cornellians Can Do: Scott Alter ’01

Book Talk, Film Screening, Keynote to Highlight Union Days

Cornell Chronicle
With a multipart theme of labor unions, immigration rights and racial justice, the ILR School’s annual Union Days event series will offer the Cornell community an opportunity throughout April to meet labor leaders and gain understanding of current labor issues.
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Book Talk, Film Screening, Keynote to Highlight Union Days

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E-commerce warehouse data offers insight into worker behavior

ILR researcher finds that even when working independently, with no group incentives and no time to communicate, employees in an e-commerce warehouse responded to performance-related cues from nearby peers.
Two warehouse employees work independently in the same area
E-commerce warehouse data offers insight into worker behavior

Rudeness May be Rewarded – As a Response to Rudeness

Cornell Chronicle
If you don’t have anything nice to say, perhaps it’s OK to say it anyway – if responding to someone who has treated you or your group disrespectfully, according to research by Merrick Osborne, assistant professor of organizational behavior.
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Rudeness May be Rewarded – As a Response to Rudeness

Job Hopping Builds Hidden ‘Mobility Benefit’

Cornell Chronicle
New research by Rebecca Kehoe ’05, M.S. ’08, Ph.D. ’10, professor of human resource studies, found that the more often a person starts a new job, the better they get at it.
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Job Hopping Builds Hidden ‘Mobility Benefit’

Distant Past May Expose Companies to Claims of Hypocrisy

Cornell Chronicle
Companies risk being criticized as hypocritical when their words and deeds don’t match – even if those discrepancies are decades apart, according to research by Brian Lucas, associate professor of organizational behavior.
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Distant Past May Expose Companies to Claims of Hypocrisy

New Paper Explores Black Workers in the South and Their Views on Unions

Black workers in the Southeast face numerous challenges, but they also believe unions could alleviate some of these issues, according to a working paper co-authored by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Ph.D. ’93, director of Labor Education Research at the ILR School.
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New Paper Explores Black Workers in the South and Their Views on Unions

Job Listings With Wide Pay Ranges May Deter Female Applicants

Cornell Chronicle
Pay range transparency laws intended to promote pay equity can inadvertently deter women from applying, thus perpetuating gender gaps in the workforce, according to research from Alice Lee, assistant professor of organizational behavior.
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Job Listings With Wide Pay Ranges May Deter Female Applicants

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As AI job replacement timeline speeds up, Cornell experts temper aggressive estimations

Spectrum News
Virginia Doellgast, ILR professor, discusses the role of unions in influencing employers to use AI to improve jobs and customer experiences and suggests that non-unionized workers proactively communicate with management about how AI can be used to care for customers and yield long-term benefits.
As AI job replacement timeline speeds up, Cornell experts temper aggressive estimations

New Report Says $25.08 Living Wage Required to Meet Basic Needs in Tompkins County

Ithaca Times
A presentation of the 2026 “Tompkins County Living Wage Study” from ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab and Ithaca Co-Lab was given in Ithaca on April 8 by Russell Weaver, director of research at ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab, and Ian Greer, research professor and director of ILR’s Ithaca Co-Lab.
New Report Says $25.08 Living Wage Required to Meet Basic Needs in Tompkins County

New York employers facing end to job applicant credit checks

Newsday
“This law ensures that people are evaluated by what they can do and not by their financial circumstances from the past,” says Cecilia Oyediran, an attorney at the ILR school, about New York’s new law restricting employers from using credit checks to decide on hiring or promoting.
New York employers facing end to job applicant credit checks

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Different training, different mission: ICE for TSA may lead to ‘poor results’

March 23, 2026

“ICE is not trained to do the same work as TSA ... Employee training is critical for proper performance of a job, and putting ICE officers to do TSA work could lead to poor results.”

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TSA staffing gaps widen as shutdown pushes officers past breaking point

March 19, 2026

“Most American workers live paycheck to paycheck or close to it ... This kind of uncertainty and chaos is bad for workers who often feel insecure about their employment rights.” 

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