As part of the Good Jobs, Good Business Toolkit, this tool guides small business owners to explore which healthcare options are right for their business, bottom line, and workers. It outlines what is needed for legal compliance along with an array of options to begin to offer health insurance coverage.

These toolkits are designed to eliminate bias across different areas of the workplace, using specific “bias interrupters” that change existing norms and practices to create more equitable workplaces. Toolkits include: Compensation, Hiring and Recruitment, Family Leave, and more. Employers may find this tool useful for developing successful, equitable workplace practices. Additionally, workforce development and worker advocacy professionals may find this toolkit helpful to share with their employer-partners.

The Gender Decoder calculates the proportion of feminine-coded and masculine-coded words in job advertisements. Research has found that masculine- coded language in job postings can deter women job seekers from applying. This free tool can help HR professionals, recruiters, or managers who want to appeal to applicants of all gender identities. For more information on the tool and it’s creation, please refer to the FAQ page.

The National Center for Employee Ownership’s (NCEO) Data and Research Center includes statistics on employee ownership, lists of employee owned companies in the United States, data on ESOP company practices, and research on employee ownership’s impact on the economy. Here, you may find resources published by NCEO and by other organizations. These resources can be helpful for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and anyone else interested in learning about the landscape of employee ownership in the United States.

These sets of resources aim to help managers, supervsiors, HR professionals, and employees clarify roles and set goals. Many of these resources help readers consider equitable and inclusive ways of establishing expectations and goals. All resources can be downloaded and include estimate reading times. This also includes paid training from the Management Center for social justice and educational equity leaders and staff. All the other free resources on this page, however, can be helpful for HR professionals, recruiters, supervisors, managers, or employees in any industry.

On this page, there are various tools, templates, and tips for hiring and onboaring new employees. Resources can help recruiters or managers decide what they need in a new employee, mitigate bias during the hiring process, create a recruiting strategy, and properly onboard new hires. All resources can be downloaded and include estimate reading times. This page also includes links to paid training from the Management Center for social justice and educational equity leaders. All the other free resources on this page, however, can be helpful for HR professionals, recruiters, or managers in any industry.

This guide outlines how employers can create an onboarding process that gives employees all the information they need to be productive. The guide draws from HR experts and provides additional resources on creating on onboarding program and an optimal first day for new employees. It also details how human resource teams and upper management can evaluate the onboarding process and shift to employee retention and satisfaction. This guide is intended for employers, human resource leaders, and managers across industries looking to hire new employees for the first time or who are revamping existing onboarding processes.

This six-step guide can help employers assess their employees’ financial stability and make an actionable plan to strengthen financial wellness. The foundational step includes assessing employee wages and benefits to ensure workers are earning a livable wage. The following steps guide employers through various financial wellness solutions, including how to implement and evaluate strategies and solicit feedback. This guide is written for employers, but it could also be used by workforce development professionals or worker advocates who work closely with employers.

This simple, user-friendly calculator serves as a tool to measure the income needed by a family to maintain an adequate standard of living in a specific community. It can calculate costs based on all counties and metro areas in the US and for 10 family types (one or two adults with zero to four children). Family budgets are calculated using seven components: housing, food, transportation, childcare, healthcare, taxes, and “other necessities.”

This calculator is a tool for estimating the living wage by US metro area, county, state, region, or at the national level. The living wage is defined as the wage needed to cover basic family expenses including housing, food, childcare, transportation, health, and other necessities, plus relevant taxes. The calculator estimates the living wage needed to support families of 12 different compositions (one to two adults with up to three children). Practitioners across fields can use this tool to benchmark compensation in local communities or firms against a wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living. Because the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a nonpartisan research institution, practitioners report that this tool has credibility with a range of audiences including businesses.