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Lucy Kellaway

Associate Editor and Work & Career Columnist

Lucy Kellaway is an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For 15 years her weekly Monday column poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.

She is the co-founder of the charity Now Teach.

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  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Semicolon by Cecelia Watson — a mark of distinction

    Lucy Kellaway reads about how the semicolon has been decried for too long; time for a reappraisal

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway on starting afresh at 60

    From work to dating, the life of an ‘aged adolescent’ is neither slow nor predictable

  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
    Travel
    My night as an oligarch, by Lucy Kellaway

    At £42,000, the Mandarin Oriental’s new penthouse is London’s most expensive hotel suite — but is it worth it?

  • Monday, 4 March, 2019
    Career change
    How important is social status at a certain age?

    When she quit the FT to become a teacher, Lucy Kellaway thought society would view her differently

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    House & Home
    Townhouses offer more downs than ups

    After 55 years of vertical living in townhouses, Lucy Kellaway is loving her new lateral life

  • Friday, 28 December, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: Why I’ve given up on dry January

    Alcohol does not only make me more agreeable to my friends. It makes me more agreeable to myself

  • Friday, 7 September, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Classics v coding: what should we be teaching our kids?

    The FT columnist-turned-teacher reconsiders which subjects are most important for the next generation

  • Friday, 13 July, 2018
    Career change
    Lucy Kellaway: ‘I have marvelled at my own hubris’

    The FT columnist is now fully qualified — but not everyone has stayed the course

  • Friday, 18 May, 2018
    Lunch with the FTBest of Lunch with the FT 2018
    Lucy Kellaway grills the world’s ‘best teacher’

    Andria Zafirakou on difficult kids, swearing in the classroom — and how she’s planning to spend her $1m prize

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 9 April, 2018
    Career change
    ‘Teaching is bending us out of shape’ — Lucy Kellaway

    Six months into a new career, the former FT columnist grades her performance

  • Thursday, 5 April, 2018
    UK property
    ‘Do not buy this house’ — Lucy Kellaway bought it anyway

    The surveyor warnings were stark but the modern masterpiece was worth the price, whatever the weather

  • Friday, 12 January, 2018
    Beauty
    Lucy Kellaway on going grey: ‘The bravest thing I’ve done’

    The former FT columnist had hopes of becoming a silver fox. It didn’t go as planned

  • Thursday, 4 January, 2018
    Career change
    Lucy Kellaway: how I learnt to love guff

    As a trainee teacher, I have developed a new permissive approach to language

  • Friday, 22 December, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway’s end-of-term diary: my first Christmas as a teacher

    I’ve been so deep in Pythagoras’ theorem I’d barely noticed the festive season was upon us

  • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
    Career change
    Could do better: my first half term as a teacher

    Lucy Kellaway left the FT this year to retrain. Here is her report card

  • Friday, 8 September, 2017
    Travel
    Non-golfer Lucy Kellaway pitches up at the new-look Gleneagles Hotel

    The grand dame of golf hotels has a new owner, a new look and a mission to attract those who don’t play

  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Next Act
    Lucy Kellaway: why we went back to school

    When the FT columnist announced she would retrain as a teacher, she called on others to join her. So will they be any good?

  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2017
    Listen to LucyListen to Lucy5 min listen
    FT readers, I will miss you most of all

    After 32 years, you are still an enigma, says Lucy Kellaway

  • Sunday, 23 July, 2017
    Career change
    FT readers, I will miss you most of all

    After 32 years, you are still an enigma

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
    Listen to LucyListen to Lucy6 min listen
    How I lost my 25-year battle against corporate claptrap

    The exponential rise of guff in business shows no sign of abating, says Lucy Kellaway

  • Sunday, 16 July, 2017
    Language and grammar
    How I lost my 25-year battle against corporate claptrap

    The exponential rise of guff in business shows no sign of abating

  • Saturday, 8 July, 2017
    Work & Careers
    Lucinda Chambers and the art of being sacked

    There is no disgrace in losing your job, though the aftermath might turn ugly

  • Thursday, 6 July, 2017
    Listen to LucyListen to Lucy5 min listen
    Apple's new grandiose office is for grown -ups

    Apple's $5bn headquarters is the world’s most expensive office and Steve Jobs' last …

  • Sunday, 2 July, 2017
    Work & Careers
    Apple has built an office for grown-ups

    Its new campus is expensive, grandiose — and good for its employees

  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2017
    Listen to LucyListen to Lucy5 min listen
    Don't listen to prigs: profanity is glorious

    Shock over swear words exposes some misplaced prudery, says Lucy Kellaway

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