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    Emma Jacobs

    Work & Careers Writer

    Emma Jacobs writes features with a particular focus on work and office life. She is the co-author of the satirical column, Work Tribes. Previously, at the FT she has edited features, UK news, as well as working on FT.com's companies, markets and world desks.

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    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy — love life under the spotlight

      This keenly anticipated new novel — about the amorous ambitions of a TV sketch writer — is layered with witty social observation

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Working It
      How video calls kill creativity

      Also in today’s newsletter, women mark 50 years trading at the London Stock Exchange

    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Mental health
      Therapy at work: banks and law firms among those offering counselling as staff perk

      Linklaters, The Bank of England and JPMorgan Chase are making virtual and on-site psychologists available

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Food & Beverage
      The playground Prime craze is a lesson in modern marketing

      Influencers targeting today’s teens are selling to a sophisticated audience complicit in the game of online hype

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Special ReportThe Modern Workplace: People
      Why the new workplace is a work in progress

      Covid-19 dismantled outdated practices but what replaces them remains contested

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      Workplace diversity & equality
      The benefits of revealing neurodiversity in the workplace

      Disclosing a diagnosis is difficult and sensitive but can lead to a better working environment

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Arts
      From a Jeff Koons to a Roman spoon, the unbearable shame of breaking things

      Decades after an unfortunate work experience incident, I still squirm at accidents like last week’s shattering of a balloon dog

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Working It
      How to find your ‘professional critic’

      Also in today’s newsletter, we explore the art and science of succession planning

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Most companies in UK four-day week trial to continue with flexible working

      Organisers found that revenue rose and staff departures fell at participating businesses

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants
      Consultancy alumni networks focus on mutual benefits

      With care, former colleagues become clients, ambassadors and returners

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Waste management & recycling
      Is it wise to keep your stuff — or just storing up trouble?

      Holding on to belongings for reuse can become overwhelming

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Style
      The menopause makeover — what to make of a ‘gold rush’ of new products

      As celebrities help break taboos, brands are looking to cash in

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Person in the News
      Sally Wainwright, ‘Happy Valley’ creator takes centre stage

      The writer, known for her strong female characters, is keeping fans guessing to the end

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      ReviewArts
      Episode 3 of ‘The Last of Us’ shows TV at its best

      WARNING: SPOILERS | ‘Long Long Time’ offered a moment to breathe after the post-apocalyptic drama’s frenetic start

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Managing yourself
      The high-stakes business of managing brand ‘Me’

      Monetising your life can be lucrative and career-enhancing — even ordinary people do it

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Work & Careers
      The great meeting bloat deserves a purge

      Our pandemic working patterns have raised the number of gatherings in which nothing is achieved

    • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
      Workplace diversity & equality
      Year in a word: quiet quitting

      The viral concept that triggered a conversation about entitled employers

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The White Lotus’s subversive game

      WARNING: SPOILERS The season finale ‘Arrivederci’ was an operatic ending to a sly, clever series

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Social affairs
      The office grinch may have a point — it’s not fun if it’s forced

      As the Christmas party returns, employers should consider the right of staff to opt out

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Working It podcast23 min listen
      Four days' work for five days' pay: does it work?

      Four UK companies trialled a shorter working week. Will they keep to it?

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Working It podcast25 min listen
      Four days' work for five days' pay: what the experts say

      How did businesses in other countries fare when they trialled a four-day week?

    • Monday, 5 December, 2022
      Working It podcast24 min listen
      Four days work for five days pay: rethinking our working hours

      Meet four of the UK companies trialling a shorter working week

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
      The Big Read
      The 4-day week: does it actually work?

      A trial to gauge whether it is possible to do the same work in fewer hours is finally drawing to a close. Here’s what four companies discovered

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The Crown and the curse of relatability

      Arriving in the 1990s, the latest season struggles with the royal family’s hit-and-miss attempts to be ‘human’

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Office life
      Privacy at work and the rise of the ‘quiet space’

      How much noise is too much in the office? As workers have returned to their desks, managing sound levels has become an art — and a science

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