Proximity to Workers
Investments in innovation for workers should meet workers where they are, and acknowledge who they are. That’s why our team is a majority first-generation, queer, people of color, and why our investments are made largely in leaders of color.
Innovation for Workers
Innovation should be used to introduce or transform ideas that make all workers safe, healthy, and secure.
Innovation by Workers
Any and all innovation for workers should be driven by workers. Period.
Inclusion of Workers
Labor laws, rights, and protections should include and extend to all workers everywhere.
Power for Workers
Workers should be the primary drivers of economics, politics, and culture in our society.
We invest in a national network of leaders (i.e., innovators) to test their new ideas, learn from them, and share those learnings with the field.
Through our Design Sprints methodology we move quickly to leverage our understanding of worker challenges, convene our extensive network, and then collaborate to create a solution we can integrate and test with workers.
Do you have a new idea that can address challenges being faced by workers? We are looking for new ideas from people like you. We especially welcome innovators of color, women, and LGBTQ+ innovators to apply for the Innovation Fund or pitch your idea for our next investment. Submit your ideas here.
How inconsistencies in questions, terms, and definitions are preventing a comprehensive understanding of what gig work is, who gig workers are, and what they need.
Learn More →The Workers Lab is now accepting applications for the 2022/2023 Innovation Fund cycle! We’re seeking innovators with early-stage ideas centered around making the ways our country serves workers more...
Learn More →Earlier this year, we launched a major effort to continue exploring how flexible work can be quality work. The effort builds from a pilot project we supported alongside the City of Long Beach,...
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The Workers Lab serves as a vehicle for the entire field of worker advocates to collaborate, explore, and experiment with new ideas for workers.
From our unique position as a convener of unlikely allies, and as an organization led by majority first-generation, queer, people of color, we have a critical perspective and insights on the future of work and what workers need.