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Pay, networks and how opportunity moves through work.
Can a four-day week preserve productivity?
Reporting subsets of self-selected pilots showed no clear revenue loss as hours fell, but productivity was mostly reported rather than measured; the current record supports a testable work redesign, not a universal output guarantee.
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Does mentorship improve early-career outcomes?
Sometimes. Randomized trials found gains in new-hire productivity and some STEM outcomes, while a 2026 professional workshop changed belonging but not publications or advancement; results varied across access arrangements, programs and outcomes.
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Do job referrals widen opportunity gaps?
A randomized employee program reduced attrition and labor costs, while observational employer data link referred hires to lower recruiting costs; experiments show incentives and referral constraints change who gets put forward, but eventual hiring or promotion gaps remain unresolved.
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Do names still change job callback rates?
Across more than 83,000 U.S. applications, those with distinctively Black names had an employer-contact rate 2.1 percentage points lower than those with distinctively White names; a Finnish replication found uneven change in combined origin signals by 2024.
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Does pay transparency narrow gender pay gaps?
Sometimes: public disclosure of individual salaries narrowed the gap in Canadian universities and employee-facing pay reports did so in Danish firms; internal reports in Austria and an on-request right in Germany did not.
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Does working from home improve performance?
There is no universal effect: field experiments range from an 18% decline to a 13% gain; a hybrid trial left measured performance unchanged, and one coordinated office day a month raised calls per hour in a June 2026 trial.
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Were the weakest LinkedIn ties best for finding a new job?
Randomized LinkedIn experiments found larger marginal job-transmission estimates for moderately weak ties, with nonlinear and platform-specific results.
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Which social connection best predicts upward mobility?
Across US counties, economic connectedness was strongly associated with upward mobility—but the 72.2-million-user study does not prove individual causation.
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Can one email change how workers feel about their pay?
A randomized salary-database email changed satisfaction and job-search intentions for below-median workers, with no measured gain above the median.
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