Manufacturing

Policymakers have the opportunity to reduce automation risks, future-proof workforces, and increase retention in manufacturing. Here’s how.

Amid retention and recruitment gaps, manufacturers are considering automation. But without also centering job quality, this may do more harm.

Confronting inequity, restoring the promise of work, and broadening opportunities are essential to building a more free, just, and equitable world.

Henry Crown Fellow Austin Ramirez shares how a company culture of innovation and community enabled his employees to spring into action to create a new reusable face mask for health care workers, as well as how he’s led with empathy and transparency through the challenges brought on by the pandemic.

How can employers’ policies and practices push up business value, boost job quality for workers, and advance broader social impacts?

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

Combining good business with good jobs, Marlin Steel offers a model that other employers can aspire to emulate.

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

Workforce practices are central to a firm’s success. What happens when companies focus on people and process equally?