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    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Future of work
      ‘Friday is just a dead day’: how a summer perk became a year-round staple

      More white-collar employees are clearing the decks at the end of the week after pandemic upended in-office work

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    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Grace Lordan
      Starting the day like Jamie Dimon set me up for success

      Many CEOs rely on a regular morning routine, so I decided to experiment

      JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who likes to rouse at 5am and voraciously read for up to two hours
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Employers wake up to the power of a staff nap

      Groups from law firms to the NHS are seeking help for the overworked

      A workman takes a siesta on a girder during the building of Radio City in New York in 1933
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      How to be more productive at work

      Productivity hacks to counter a world full of distraction

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      Anjli Raval
      Psychological tests can help firms hire better — but accuracy is not guaranteed

      Employers are using personality assessments to resolve disputes and diversify their workforce

      Montage image showing a person doing a Rubik’s Cube
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      Automated stress detection might not be the office panacea it appears to be

      New technology intended for self-management could open the door to surveillance

      Andy Carter illustration of a stressed worker holding her head in her hands while sat at a laptop
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Grace Lordan
      How to be a better leader in the new workplace

      Research tells us what works — and what doesn’t — in terms of engaging staff, at home and in person

      Illustration of people sitting at their desks looking at their laptop screens as they attend an online meeting with the people who are in the office with them
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Sarah O'Connor
      We are all secretaries now

      Cost-cutting has left workers drowning in ‘self-service’ admin tasks — but AI might come to the rescue

      FT montage image showing a man working at a computer, with a clock and notifications for emails and messages hovering in the background
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      How to work smarter, not harder, according to Cal Newport

      His strategies for stressed-out knowledge workers have sold 2mn books. What does he know that we don’t?

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    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Special ReportThe Modern Workplace: People
      Spooks in your machine: rise in WFH monitoring drives dissent

      Surveillance of staff at home or in workplaces can be counterproductive, researchers argue

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    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Pilita Clark
      The grim world of office spyware

      The chief executive of a time-tracking software group reveals how his contentious product works in real life

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Office life
      What to do if you hate your job

      Proactive ways to identify the source of your problem — and do something about it

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    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      The seven types of email you should never, ever send

      Guilty of these shocking breaches of epistolary etiquette? Do better

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      FT Series
      Make work better in 2023

      From rethinking networking in the hybrid age to leaving a job well — hit the ground running in the new year

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Miranda Green
      Frogs, toads and the poetic road to productivity

      Resisting work is futile, so take a lesson from some literary amphibians and embrace its necessary role in your life

    • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      ‘Big Brother’ managers should turn the lens on themselves

      Employee surveillance causes stress and resentment, and isn’t that effective anyway

      Matt Kenyon illustration of two workers sitting at their desks with a metal construction tied to their neck holding two cameras pointed to each side of their heads.
    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Emma Jacobs
      The morning rituals of turbo-strivers are entertainment, not inspiration

      Meditation at 5am followed by a run, an ice bath and a blast of physio is a masochistic practice best contemplated at leisure

      A man in an outdoor  ice bath  with ice all around
    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      Working It
      Trick your brain to see work as play

      Plus, Thursdays are the new Fridays and why companies are taking nature retreats

      A Storm Trooper sits at a desk with a flurry of notifications and to-do list items floating around them.
    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      How can the UK improve its productivity? I went to Legoland to find out

      Like theme parks, British businesses could invest more, but uncertainty holds them back

      illustration of a Lego figure looking down at a hole with a ladder leading down
    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Nels Abbey
      Why presenteeism is an enduring corporate narcotic

      Some leaders are demanding long hours in offices as if the WFH revolution never happened

      A businesswoman working at a desk examining documents in an empty office at night
    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Russell Foster
      Calculating the real cost of the graveyard shift

      Aligning work and healthcare with the body’s circadian cycles could bring revolutionary health benefits

      A cleaner operates a vacuum cleaner inside the reception of an office building in the City of London
    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      InterviewWomen in business
      Birgit Troy: the tech start-up scene proves hard to resist

      The COO’s goal at Canadian data provider Canalyst is to maintain its triple-digit growth

      A short-haired woman, arms crossed, looking away from the camera. Trees in the background
    • 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

      Laurie Weingart, Lise Vesterlund, Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser stand in front of a window
    • 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

      A montage of a sick woman working at her laptop with a large clock behind her
    • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
      Mining
      End of an era at Anglo American as Mark Cutifani steps down

      Australian has revived the fortunes of the mining group that faced near collapse a few years ago

      Mark Cutifani
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