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  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    InterviewSarah Jaffe
    Why you should ditch ‘follow your passion’ careers advice

    A new book tackles the myth that we should all love our work — it won’t love us back

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    FT MagazineElaine Moore
    Big Tech needs to shake up the video call and end the Zoom gloom

    After nine months of near-constant virtual meetings, the main providers all still offer similar services

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    The Big Read
    Where’s the spark? How lockdown caused a creativity crisis

    With remote working taking a toll on collaboration, managers are brainstorming ways to ensure the flow of new ideas

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Working from home
    The pandemic tests a new generation of graduate trainees

    For the lucky few who get into schemes, the reality of starting work from home is daunting

  • Sunday, 17 January, 2021
    Pilita Clark
    Vaccines won’t get us back in the office any time soon

    Employers wanting mandatory staff Covid shots need to think again

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    LexTrade unions
    Trade unions: locked down, banding together Premium

    The feebler the trade-offs provided by employers, the better it will be for union recruitment

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Employment
    Pandemic’s homeworking surge fuels need for better regulation, says ILO

    Staff on employers’ premises, even in higher-skilled jobs, are still better off financially

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Special ReportCorporate Change and Technology
    Pandemic boosts business case for investing in staff

    Finance chiefs must prioritise talent retention as the economy starts to rebound

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    FT Series
    Mental health at work

    As the effects of the pandemic weigh on the world’s workforce, this series examines how employers can mitigate isolation and burnout and support flexible work

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    Beware the cunning minimalist in your midst

    The selfish office work shirker was bad enough, but in a pandemic they cannot be tolerated

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Luke Edward Hall
    Clever conversion: create an office and guest bedroom in one

    A spare room or loft is ideal for reworking your space

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    FT SeriesMental health at work
    Work less and be more creative — a radical prescription

    Backers of ‘alternative hedonism’ want us to lead more balanced lives, with time for culture and community

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    FT SeriesMental health at work
    How to make flexible jobs work

    It is time for managers to look beyond the crisis and develop long-term strategies to support staff

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Inside BusinessDaniel Thomas
    How the pandemic will change the City office

    Many companies plan to downsize headquarters and push through a permanent shift to hybrid working models

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    Isabel Berwick
    WFA? It’s just the new lexicon of work

    Start 2021 by getting to know the words that will define our working lives this year

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    The office: a photography special
    When desk and home collide

    ‘Starting a few centimetres outside the frame of the webcam, each person creates their own world’

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    The office: a photography special
    Simon Kuper: my two decades as a working-from-home pioneer

    ‘When I realised I could write my column from anywhere, I bought a flat in Paris. I suspect the FT didn’t even notice.’ Photography by Thomas Demand

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    House & Home
    How coronavirus has shaped the home of tomorrow

    Architects, estate agents and homeowners explore the trends for 2021 and beyond

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    ‘Hybrid’ working calls for patience and ingenuity

    Employers must develop staff skills fit for the shifting future of work

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    The office: a photography special
    Lee Friedlander’s glimpses of the computer revolution of the 1980s

    Images show a time when hefty electronics promised to change the world of work

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    The office: a photography special
    What lining up office workers in height order tells us about power

    Minna Kantonen’s photos show us how arbitrary our workplace hierarchies of salary and seniority are

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    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    What can we learn from the great WFH experiment?

    Working from home is more productive than we had guessed but face-to-face contact will still make a difference

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Want to know what makes people tick? Ask them over Zoom

    From City of London traders to Indian rickshaw drivers, everyone uses a more intimate style of conversation on video calls

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
    FT MagazineEmma Jacobs
    Resolutions for 2021 after a year working from home

    Zoom forced me to reappraise the humble phone, which cuts through the endless email chains and WhatsApp pinging

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    FT MagazineJames Rebanks
    James Rebanks: nature is my office, come rain or shine

    ‘There is a kind of fellowship of the fields. We have a water-cooler equivalent in our roadside chats’

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