The complete 2026 research library — open, sourced, and built to be cited.
Twelve flagship think-tank pieces, two interactive worker-facing tools, and the open data behind them. Designed for journalists, policymakers, partners, and the workers the research is actually about. No paywall, no signup, JSON-LD schema on every page.
The Human Adaptability and Potential Index
NWLB's worker-level index of how well-positioned an individual is for the next five years of working life. Five dimensions, 0–100 score, predictive validity on three labor-market outcomes.
HAPI Lite
Free 15-question worker diagnostic across the five HAPI dimensions. Client-side, no signup, no data leaves your device. Get a 0–100 score plus three concrete recommendations.
The HAPI Index 2026
The full think-tank piece on the construct: five dimensions, country-level patterns, predictive validity on involuntary job loss, re-employment speed, and wage trajectory.
The 2026 AI Job Displacement Map
72 named occupations placed on a 2×2 of AI exposure × worker bargaining power. Filterable by sector, with per-occupation evidence and downloadable data under CC BY 4.0.
Explore the Job Map
72 occupations, 11 sectors, four quadrants — Compounders, Treadmillers, Negotiators, Casualties. Click any role for evidence, sources, and a "what to do if you're in this role" panel.
Who Gets Augmented, Who Gets Replaced
The think-tank piece behind the map. The 2×2 framework, the evidence quadrant by quadrant, and why bargaining power is the variable AI policy debates keep missing.
The 2026 Flagship Series
Thirteen more pieces, each built on the same editorial principles: original frameworks, named sources, no fabricated quotes, schema-rich for machine citation.
The Civilian Cliff
Why half of veterans leave their first civilian job — and the four-phase transition playbook (Translation → Placement → Onboarding → Retention) that programs like Microsoft MSSA and Amazon Military actually use.
04 Think Tank · Worker RightsThe Gig Economy Settlement
California Prop 22, the EU Platform Work Directive, Washington's portable benefits, the UK "worker" status — four serious frameworks competing to replace the employee/contractor binary. Side by side.
05 Knowledge Hub · Mental HealthThe Burnout Decade
Why workplace mental-health spending rose 4.5× from 2019 and burnout still rose 11 points. Read against the actual evidence: Maslach, ICD-11, the meditation-app RCTs. Plus an honest reallocation budget.
06 Community Support · WomenWomen, Work, and the Future
What's left of the gender pay gap is mostly about care, time, and Claudia Goldin's "greedy work" premium. A five-lever framework, country-by-country, with employer moves that don't require waiting for policy.
07 Knowledge HubApprenticeship 2.0
U.S. registered apprenticeships grew 65% from 2014 to 2024 — into cybersecurity, healthcare, AI, advanced manufacturing. Where the growth is, what makes a state system actually work, and what the next four years decide.
08 Think Tank · EquityDEI After the Backlash
A 2026 inventory of what the 2023–2025 retrenchment actually changed, what's still working on the evidence, and what to rebuild around now. With a table separating substance from theatre.
09 Knowledge HubRemote Work, Year Six
The productivity case for blanket RTO was settled in 2023 by Nick Bloom's RCT data. What 2025–2026 mandates are actually about (real estate, manager training, junior development) — and what hybrid done well looks like.
10 Knowledge HubProductivity Theatre
Why most workforce-productivity software measures activity, not output — and the operational upgrade firms actually improving output have made. Built on DORA, DX, Newport's Slow Productivity, and the MIT keystroke-monitoring data.
11 Community Support · Job SearchThe 2026 Job-Search Playbook
60–75% of knowledge-work hires above $80K come through referral, recruiter, or internal mobility — not from public applications. A four-step playbook (Map · Signal · Sequence · Convert) for working the hidden market.
12 Community Support · Lifelong LearningReskilling for Real
Most reskilling content is written for HR buyers, not workers. This is the worker-side playbook: diagnose what's actually at risk in your role, stage the move inside your current job, and pivot deliberately — not in a panic.
13 Community Support · Race & EquityRacial Equity at Work
Where the race-gender gap actually lives — four mechanisms (sorting, hiring, place, within-firm patterns) and the interventions that move each.
14 Community Support · DisabilityDisability Inclusion at Work
The U.S. 38-point disability employment gap, why it persists, and the four interventions with the strongest evidence base for closing it.
15 Community Support · Aging WorkforceThe Aging Workforce
A quarter of the U.S. labor force is now 55 or older. The age-discrimination, ergonomics, and policy moves the data actually supports.
16 Community Support · Career DevelopmentThe Mentorship Mismatch
Why most corporate mentorship programs fail to move promotion rates — and what sponsorship actually looks like.
17 Knowledge Hub · LeadershipLeadership in the Augmented Workplace
The 2010s leadership-development industry trained managers for a workplace that no longer exists. The five-component new operating model.
Glossary & reference material
Definitions for the load-bearing terms — HAPI, the 2×2 axes, greedy work, civilian cliff, sponsorship vs. mentorship — with internal links to the pillars that use them.
NWLB Glossary
Citable definitions for the key terms across NWLB's research, with JSON-LD DefinedTermSet schema and per-term cross-references to the pillar pieces.
Download the Job Map CSV
72-row dataset of the 2026 AI Job Displacement Map, with augmentation index, bargaining-power index, quadrant, per-occupation evidence, and source attribution. Released under CC BY 4.0.
Citing NWLB Research
No Worker Left Behind (2026). [Title of Piece or Tool]. No Worker Left Behind. https://noworkerleftbehind.org/[slug]/. Accessed [date].
Flagship pieces include JSON-LD Article schema; the Job Map dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0; the HAPI Lite tool is available free with JSON-LD WebApplication schema. For embargoed previews, methods notes, or interview requests: [email protected].
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