Salvatore Affinito

I am an Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. Prior to NYU Stern, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Business School. I received my PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I study the future of work in three complementary ways. 

First, I look at the role of distance on work outcomes (e.g., hybrid and remote work arrangements). Second, I examine the impact of globalization at work (e.g., multicultural experiences). Third, I unpack potential downsides of emerging policies in organizations (e.g., zero-tolerance policies for misconduct; exerting performance pressure to foster "always on" cultures). I use field, lab, and archival data - spanning quantitative and qualitative methods - to explore these ideas. 

My work has been published in academic outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Academy of Management Annals. 

My work has also been featured or published in other outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Scientific American, and BBC News' Business Matters radio show.

I have also won awards for my work, including the Most Innovative Student Paper Award for the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division (in 2019 and 2020), and the Academy of Management Annals' Best Paper Award (in 2022). 

To contact me, please email affinito@stern.nyu.edu.