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Lucy Kellaway

Former Associate Editor and Work & Career Columnist

Lucy Kellaway was 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, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 202052 sec
    James Suzman: 'In the 20th century, the office became the village'

    The death of the office - and our home-working future - with Lucy Kellaway, Andrew Hill and James Suzman

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway heads back to school — anxiously

    After a sleepless night, a return to her classroom in an east London comprehensive brings reasons for concern — and delight

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: what my students have taught me about race

    In an east London classroom, the realities of racism come sharply into focus

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: We will miss the office if it dies

    As an FT columnist she skewered office culture — but, she argues, it is something to treasure

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: Is it OK to be happy in lockdown?

    So long as I don’t look at the news, my stress levels are as low as I can remember

  • Thursday, 19 March, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: tackling coronavirus in the classroom

    The FT columnist turned teacher is trying to keep a cool head — but it gets harder by the day

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway — don’t worry less, worry smarter

    Fretting too much is no fun but there’s an upside to feeling anxious

  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
    FT CollectionsClimate change
    Best of our weekend letters 2019

    From climate change and Kylie Jenner’s wealth to sex strikes and Lucy Kellaway’s maths

  • 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

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019
    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
    FT Globetrotter
    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

  • 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?

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