Sarah O'Connor | Financial Times

Tuesday, 24 May, 2022

Tuesday, 17 May, 2022

UK employment

Beware the promise of salary advance schemes

Such products look increasingly attractive to some employees as the cost of living crisis bites

Tuesday, 10 May, 2022

New Zealand

New Zealand’s jobs law will cause ripples beyond its shores

Introducing fair pay agreements would reverse 30 years of labour market deregulation

Tuesday, 3 May, 2022

UK employment

Rot festers in the lower depths of the British labour market

Poor regulation of umbrella companies is bad for workers, taxpayers and decent businesses alike

Tuesday, 26 April, 2022

Pension automatic enrolment

When a pensions policy is a resounding success, we should say so

There remains more to do but automatic enrolment has had a transformational effect

Tuesday, 12 April, 2022

UK employment

Why the middle-class capture of apprenticeship matters

Reforms have led to a sharp fall in England in younger apprentices from poorer areas

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Working It podcast29 min listen

Is this the end of work as we know it?

Why millions are quitting their jobs, working less, or declaring themselves anti-work

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Amazon.com

Union victory for Amazon warehouse could change US labour movement

Grassroots Staten Island win shows the power of organising from the bottom up

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

UK employment

The P&O debacle shows that UK labour law needs an overhaul

There are too many loopholes and grey areas that unscrupulous employers can exploit

Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

Future of work

A four-day week might benefit employers as well

Experiments have shown that workers’ hours can be cut without a corresponding drop in output

Thursday, 17 March, 2022

FT Magazine

How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town?

Ten years after her groundbreaking investigation into the retail giant, Sarah O’Connor returns to Rugeley to find out what’s changed

Tuesday, 15 March, 2022

War in Ukraine

Europe has done the right thing by allowing Ukrainian refugees to work

But access to employment must be underpinned by services to help new arrivals to support themselves

Thursday, 3 March, 2022

FT CollectionsClaudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin: ‘Greedy work has been made less greedy’

The pandemic has helped facilitate flexible working, which might make top jobs more compatible with family life

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

Coronavirus economic impact

Better UK sick pay will help us live with Covid

Britain lags behind countries like Germany in the help it gives to workers who fall ill

Tuesday, 22 February, 2022

Artificial intelligence

Never mind Big Tech — ‘little tech’ can be dangerous at work too

‘Algorithmic management’ is spreading beyond gig platforms and logistics warehouses to other sectors

Tuesday, 15 February, 2022

UK immigration

Keeping asylum seekers in limbo is bad for everyone

‘Human capital’ is damaged when people are shut out of labour markets and forced to sit idle

Tuesday, 8 February, 2022

UK employment

In unequal Britain, why aren’t there more Dick Whittingtons?

The government’s ambition to spread highly-skilled jobs more evenly around the country is a good one

Monday, 31 January, 2022

UK employment

UK plan shows how not to deal with labour shortages

The issue isn’t that the unemployed are too picky — it’s that many have left the jobs market altogether

Tuesday, 11 January, 2022

Legal services

Don’t roll your eyes when lawyers complain about overwork

Listening to the concerns of people at the top can inform the debate over how to improve jobs at the bottom

Wednesday, 29 December, 2021

UK employment

A decent boss can make the world of difference at work

Job satisfaction takes many forms but beware the demoralising effects of impersonal systems for evaluating employees

Tuesday, 21 December, 2021

FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

Against the odds: the struggles of migrants to build a business

The FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign: Despite many obstacles, new arrivals have a record of entrepreneurship

Monday, 20 December, 2021

Flexible working

It’s not only working mothers who benefit from flexible jobs

Ruling out so many potential candidates at a time of staff shortages is irrational

Monday, 6 December, 2021

UK government spending

What a lost decade of education spending means for the economy

The government has big ambitions but is only halfheartedly matching them with its wallet

Tuesday, 30 November, 2021

Artificial intelligence

AI is making applying for jobs even more miserable

Asynchronous video interviews are bad news for both employers and would-be employees

Tuesday, 23 November, 2021

US employment

Corporate America’s parallel justice system is a recipe for unfairness

Mandatory arbitration clauses deprive workers of their day in court when their rights are breached

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