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Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Cornell Chronicle
According to a new study by Emily Zitek, associate professor of organizational behavior, all employees like private rewards – a salary increase or glowing performance review that’s not broadcast to others in the workplace – but narcissists also want to have rewards made public for their colleagues to see.
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Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Cute Robots, Historical Chatbots: AI in the Classroom

Cornell Chronicle
Scott Seidenberger ’16, a postdoctoral associate in human resource studies, designed Hopper, a robot and chatbot to illustrate how AI may manifest in the workplace.
Scott Seidenberger ’16 uilt Hopper from scratch so students can see the logic on which it is built and play a role in developing it and improving it over the course of his class.
Cute Robots, Historical Chatbots: AI in the Classroom

YTI Receives Grant to Fund ADA Center, Support Mental Health Research

The center will provide guidance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act, and researchers will investigate ways to make workplace mental health programs more accessible.
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YTI Receives Grant to Fund ADA Center, Support Mental Health Research

Pair of ILRies to Give Annual REALTalk on Oct. 22

Themed “Finding Your Inner Strength,” this year's REALTalk panel will feature two ILR alumni and take place Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
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Pair of ILRies to Give Annual REALTalk on Oct. 22

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Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Cornell Chronicle
According to a new study by Emily Zitek, associate professor of organizational behavior, all employees like private rewards – a salary increase or glowing performance review that’s not broadcast to others in the workplace – but narcissists also want to have rewards made public for their colleagues to see.
A graphic of a woman climbing steps to reach a trophy in front of others.
Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Bohns’ Book: Speak Up or Keep it to Yourself?

Cornell Chronicle
In her new book, “Should I Say Something? The Science of What to Share – And What to Keep to Yourself” Vanessa Bohns, the Braunstein Family Professor, offers a guide for navigating challenging situations based on her own and others’ research.
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Bohns’ Book: Speak Up or Keep it to Yourself?

Private Equity Ownership Results in Poor Working Conditions in NYS Home Care

Cornell Chronicle
Private equity firms’ investment in home care agencies perpetuates poor working conditions for workers by continuing the exploitation that is prevalent across the industry, according to a new study from the ILR School’s Worker Institute.
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Private Equity Ownership Results in Poor Working Conditions in NYS Home Care

Kheel Center Exhibit Weaves Clothing, Work and the Environment

Cornell Chronicle
As climate change intensifies, what workers wear becomes a question of survival, a dire prospect explored by a new Cornell University Library exhibit, which opens on Oct. 8 at the Catherwood Library.
A photo of cotton farmers in Arkansas in 1937, part of a series of photographs by Louise Boyle, who documented the living and working conditions of members of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
Kheel Center Exhibit Weaves Clothing, Work and the Environment

CJI Releases “Blueprint for Labor-Led Residential Decarbonization in New York”

New York state could catalyze a widespread clean energy transition and address its affordability issues by leveraging one of its most important resources – homes – according to a new report from the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University.
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CJI Releases “Blueprint for Labor-Led Residential Decarbonization in New York”

Cooling Investments in Apparel Factories Can Pay for Themselves

Investing in cooling for Bangladesh’s apparel factories can be commercially viable, with an average payback period of one to four years, according to new research from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute.
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Cooling Investments in Apparel Factories Can Pay for Themselves

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Cornell professors test AI teaching tools while protecting hands-on learning

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A course on AI and HR will use a robot and chatbot being built by Scott Seidenberger ’16, ILR postdoctoral associate in human resource studies; Seidenberger is part of Cornell’s AI Experimenters Faculty Fellows program.
Cornell professors test AI teaching tools while protecting hands-on learning

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Mongabay
Heat stress was linked to roughly a 4.1% annual revenue drop at a Bangladeshi factory says a report from ILR’s Global Labor Institute; the report is called “Six Seasons, Four Summers: How to Solve Fashion’s High Heat Problem.”
Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

What Is AI Doing to Jobs? The Data We Need Isn't Being Collected-Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen

Exploring Prosperity
“We’re really not getting to the local, very timely demographic and occupation industry-specific effects,” says Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, commenting in a podcast interview on the benefits of modernizing data collection efforts by U.S. federal statistical agencies.
What Is AI Doing to Jobs? The Data We Need Isn't Being Collected-Former BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen
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Microsoft AI agreement is only a first step for teachers unions

September 10, 2026

“The agreement between the AFT and Microsoft is a starting point, but it leaves some of the biggest questions about AI in classrooms unanswered ... The central question is whether teacher unions will negotiate over exactly how AI is used in the classroom."

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Labor Day 2026: Cornell experts on AI, the changing workplace

Sept. 3, 2026

Artificial intelligence has quickly become one of the defining issues in the workplace, with employers and workers alike grappling with how the technology will change jobs, productivity, wages and the balance of power at work.

In this Tip Sheet, labor experts discuss AI’s impact on workers, jobs and the workplace.

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