Fulfillment Center Study on Work, Health, and Wellbeing

Description

This study seeks to evaluate how work conditions affect workers' health and well-being, job attitudes and decisions on the job, and key organizational outcomes. This study is being carried out in partnership with a national retailer's e-commerce division. The study centers on a cluster randomized trial evaluation of changes in workplace policies and practices in order to understand their impact on workers, families, and the firm but also utilize multi-method data to gain a better understanding of the stressors and sources of resilience for this growing, but understudied population of low-wage workers.

Conditions

Psychological Distress, Psychological Well-being, Subjective Health, Injuries

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study seeks to evaluate how work conditions affect workers' health and well-being, job attitudes and decisions on the job, and key organizational outcomes. This study is being carried out in partnership with a national retailer's e-commerce division. The study centers on a cluster randomized trial evaluation of changes in workplace policies and practices in order to understand their impact on workers, families, and the firm but also utilize multi-method data to gain a better understanding of the stressors and sources of resilience for this growing, but understudied population of low-wage workers.

Fulfillment Center Intervention Study as Part of The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing

Fulfillment Center Study on Work, Health, and Wellbeing

Condition
Psychological Distress
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Cambridge

MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 02142

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * All individuals, non-supervisory and supervisory, employed at the fulfillment centers, including temporary workers.
  • * N/A

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Erin L Kelly, Phd, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, MIT Sloan School of Management

Study Record Dates

2024-08-31