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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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  • 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

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
    Career change
    New job, new you? Well, maybe . . . 

    Changing careers can be exciting — but it’s not always the answer to working life’s problems

  • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
    FT SeriesMake work better in 2023
    Advice to older workers: don’t be the office curmudgeon

    Grumbling about younger peers is not only ageing, it makes the complainer seem resistant to progress

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
    The Big Read
    How the pandemic transformed Britain’s commuter towns

    Hybrid working and recouped travel time are giving a lasting boon to the economies, ambitions and even infrastructure of satellite communities

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Personal productivity
    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

  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Five London hotels with eco ambitions

    Smart sustainable stays in the UK capital

  • Monday, 19 September, 2022
    Management
    Middle managers — on the new front line of office life

    From motivating staff to maintaining company culture, demands on team leaders intensify as they juggle the expectations of employees and senior leaders

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Social Media
    Company brands should keep calm and carry on

    Center Parcs is one of many UK firms which have struggled to respond appropriately to the Queen’s death

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Working It podcast17 min listen
    A sceptic’s guide to ‘quiet quitting’

    Has Gen Z accidentally reinvented old-school industrial action?

  • Sunday, 21 August, 2022
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Oleg Rogynskyy of People.ai: ‘I had a gut feeling that a war was going to start’

    How the tech company boss helped his Ukrainian workforce to leave the country as threats from Russia increased

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT business books: what to read this month

    Challenging the resilience narrative — and the art of office gossip

  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    It’s time to turn the page on your TV snobbery

    Most novels are not high art. And some TV may prove more serious and delightful

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    OutlookHealth
    How I learnt that fitness is a feminist issue

    It is harder for women to take up exercise — but the pandemic highlighted just how valuable it can be

  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    InterviewHow to Lead
    Brompton’s Will Butler-Adams: ‘People have no idea what goes into a product. That’s not a good thing’

    The folding-bike company boss on the importance of manufacturing and why we need to ‘care more about the stuff we buy’

  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    Working It podcast29 min listen
    How big a pay rise do you need right now?

    As food and energy prices rocket, some companies are offering debt advice and loans to staff

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