Emma Jacobs | Financial Times

Wednesday, 11 May, 2022

Tuesday, 10 May, 2022

The enduring fascination of the ‘power spouse’

Partners who surrender their own professional ambitions spark endless curiosity

Monday, 9 May, 2022

Greener getaways: all aboard the 09:02 Country Garden Express from London

Leave the car behind for a first-class train journey whose destination is a day of indulgence and exploration on a sustainable estate-cum-pastoral idyll: The Newt in Somerset

Monday, 9 May, 2022

Business travel

Why our work trips are starting to look like holidays

The blurring of business travel and leisure — bleisure — is booming in an ‘always-on’ world

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

Managing yourself

The new networking for a hybrid era

Big real-life gatherings can seem daunting, and many people are rethinking how to re-establish professional connections

Thursday, 28 April, 2022

Managing yourself

The club that teaches women how to say ‘no’ to office housework

Four female academics have identified the non-promotable tasks that have obstructed their, and their peers’, career paths

Tuesday, 19 April, 2022

Flexible working

The end of sick days: has WFH made it harder to take time off?

Remote working has made it easier to power through illness rather than rest, but this could be at a cost to health, wellbeing and productivity

Monday, 11 April, 2022

Travel

Birch and the future of ‘work near home’

A converted Hertfordshire manor house offers a place to ‘live, work and play’

Monday, 11 April, 2022

Office life

Sibling rivalries, spousal squabbles — it’s great to be back in the office

You may not be able to choose your workplace family but, unlike your real one, you can always ditch them and move on

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

Twitter Inc

Twitter’s edit button will not rewrite your life

Combating abuse and scams would be a better priority for the social media app

Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

Working It podcast21 min listen

Does office romance actually make you a better worker?

Mixing business and pleasure is high risk, but there are ways to make it work

Monday, 21 March, 2022

Management

What makes staff want to leave their jobs? Ask them

Don’t wait for an exit interview to talk to employees — the ‘stay’ interview helps retain them in the first place

Friday, 18 March, 2022

Womenswear

Is the underwired bra over?

Two years of working from home has led many professional women to switch to softer or sportier styles — or no bra at all

Thursday, 10 March, 2022

ReviewBusiness books

FT business books: March edition

From creating more connected teams to digital transformation — here are this month’s top titles

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022

Special ReportWomen in Business

Why US mothers deserve a $2,400 pay cheque

‘Having it all’ too often means ‘doing it all’, argues Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022

Special ReportWomen in Business

Nica Burns: risk-taker who worked to reopen London’s theatreland

Covid lockdowns tested the impresario’s entrepreneurial skills

Sunday, 6 March, 2022

Recruitment

Boomerang employees: returning with new skills and experience

Going back to a previous employer offers many benefits — but there are risks

Sunday, 27 February, 2022

Parenting and families

Is fertility a topic for the workplace?

All the policies supporting motherhood will fail if the corporate culture is hostile

Thursday, 24 February, 2022

InterviewTelevision

What next for Pamela Adlon after the final season of ‘Better Things’?

The star, director and co-writer of the FX comedy talks parenting, #MeToo — and how much of her real life makes it on to TV

Sunday, 13 February, 2022

Management

Do you suffer from ‘meeting bloat’ ?

Some corporate leaders are holding fewer meetings — or banning them altogether

Sunday, 6 February, 2022

Flexible working

Employers beware: hybrid work weakens loyalty

As knowledge workers spend less time in the office, their attachment to the organisation will diminish

Sunday, 16 January, 2022

Corporate culture

It is the workplace, not women’s confidence, that needs to be fixed

A new book suggests corporate change is better than asking female staff to work on their own self-belief

Thursday, 6 January, 2022

Flexible working

Why modern managers are reviving old-school staff handbooks

Corporate leaders are rewriting the rules of the workplace in response to the challenges of remote working

Wednesday, 5 January, 2022

FT SeriesHow to manage stress and anxiety at work

Emotional by Leonard Mlodinow — more than a feeling

The physicist’s latest book illuminates how the shadowy unconscious shapes our everyday ‘rational’ behaviour

Saturday, 1 January, 2022

InterviewManaging yourself

How the science of motivation helps with New Year’s resolutions

Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioural science, discusses the best way to set goals — and stick to them

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