Amazon recently announced an increase in the average starting wage for their workers to $18 per hour. Diane Burton and Tae Youn Park weigh in on what this change will mean for workers, managers and the broader industry.

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s ILR School, offers the following suggestions for how to make–the potentially tricky–request more effective. 

Economics and Business

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The following Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on masking and social distancing for grades K-12.

education

science

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Cornell University labor experts are available to weigh in on the increased focus on workplace safety, gig economy growth, unemployment and employee shortages, climate jobs, social justice at work and more.

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Russell Weaver, economic geographer and director of research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, says while the March jobs report is poised to show continued signs of economic recovery, New York state is still lagging behind the rest of the nation.

New York State

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Vanessa Bohns, associate professor of organizational behavior Cornell University’s ILR School, says TikTok’s efforts should have a positive impact on improving the online community.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Salesforce, a leading cloud-based software company based in San Francisco, announced this week that it would allow its employees to “work remotely part or full time after the pandemic.” Bradford S. Bell says that Salesforce is not alone in suggesting hybrid work arrangements in the long term. He adds that such decisions carry important cost-saving and other benefits for companies with a significant real estate footprint, like Salesforce.   

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Protests are spreading in India, where farmers are rallying against new agricultural laws that they say will undermine their livelihood and benefit big corporations.  Sarah Besky, associate professor in the ILR School at Cornell University, studies labor relations with an emphasis on farming and the tea industry in India. She is available for interviews about the economic dynamics underlying the current protests.

Law and Policy

International

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Economic geographer, Russell Weaver says businesses in New York, especially in the retail and food services industries, are still struggling to rehire employees and new unemployment claims are continuing to trend upward.

Industrial and Labor Relations

New York State

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Sarah Besky says causes for ‘mystery illnesses,’ especially in marginalized areas, are hard to identify given the multiple risk factors that are a part of domestic life in these regions.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

International

Industrial and Labor Relations

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