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Pilita Clark

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

She has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment, and was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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  • Sunday, 26 December, 2021
    Flexible working
    Tough business lessons from the pandemic

    Change is remorseless, we’re not building back better and we’re certainly not all in this together

  • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
    Working from home
    If you thought hybrid working was hard, wait until 2022

    The divide over worker autonomy will widen as the trend for more flexible working gathers pace

  • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
    Career change
    ‘Green defectors’ ditch high-flying careers in business and finance

    Growing numbers of executives are quitting blue-chip jobs to work on tackling climate change

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
    Office life
    A work blunder teaches so much more than a triumph

    Too few companies encourage staff to have blame-free discussions about their mistakes

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Office life
    Don’t despair if Omicron wrecks your holiday plans

    Vacations are wonderful but a few days off can be just as useful as a week

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
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    Best books of 2021: Climate and environment

    Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles

  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    COP26
    Queues, Covid and confused messaging plague COP26

    Organisational mayhem in Glasgow surpasses previous summits and bold climate pledges are not what they seem

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    Climate change
    COP26 is haunted by the shadow of Copenhagen

    Struggles for progress in Glasgow evoke bitter memories of dismal Danish summit

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Companies struggle for clarity on net zero targets

    A concept that hardly existed six years ago poses ever knottier problems for businesses rushing to adopt it

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  • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Minority staff want to spend more time working from home

    Employers who want to build a diverse workforce need to be wary of forcing people back to the office full-time

  • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
    The Big Read
    How green politics went mainstream

    In some countries green politicians, elected by voters concerned about climate change, have a greater voice than ever before

  • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
    Work-life balance
    Pawternity leave is a step too far in the pandemic pet boom

    Demands for time off to be with lockdown pets is jarring when millions still lack paid parental leave

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    FT Books Essay
    Green shoots — words of hope on the climate crisis

    Three books present a case for optimism ahead of the COP26 summit, and in the face of looming environmental catastrophe

  • Sunday, 17 October, 2021
    Managing yourself
    Young workers have a better grip on the need to unplug

    Boomers may be baffled by 20-somethings’ demands for proper time off but they should be grateful

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
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    S&P stink bomb, LinkedIn loves Ted Lasso

    A report suggests companies could buy their index membership, and leadership lessons from the fictional coach

  • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
    Leadership
    Affairs of the heart spell double trouble for female leaders

    A woman who breaks the rules still stands out in a way that few men can

  • Friday, 8 October, 2021
    COP26
    The Davos set descending on COP26 should prepare themselves

    The UN’s climate jamboree in Glasgow will feature the great, the good, the activists — and weeks of tedious negotiation

  • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
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    Money isn’t everything in the Great Re-evaluation

    People are rethinking what they really want from working life and employers need to watch them closely

  • Sunday, 26 September, 2021
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    Ted Lasso’s leadership lessons

    The sweet-natured comedy shows that it pays to be a kind and decent manager

  • Sunday, 19 September, 2021
    Office life
    No one can act alone to cure the curse of a noisy colleague

    Individual workers have long been left to fix an infuriating problem only employers can address

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    Best of FT Money 2021
    My biggest financial mistake: FT writers confess

    As part of our FT Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign, some of our experts explain how they learnt the hard way . . . 

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    Climate change
    Working from home won’t save the planet

    Studies indicate that remote working offers modest emissions savings at best — and at worst is a carbon enhancer

  • Sunday, 12 September, 2021
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    Why smoking may be a sackable offence

    Now that our kitchens and bedrooms are also our workspaces, employers have the chance to get tough

  • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
    Recruitment
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    How using Uber ratings as an algorithmic shortcut to find good staff turned into a cautionary tale

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    FT Swamp Notes
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    None have proved significantly better at handling Covid-19, but a country’s population size could matter

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