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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

    A jogger in New York City
  • 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?

    A close up photograph of a man outdoors, with blue skies behind him. He is looking hopefully upwards. On top of the image a selection of cartoon stickers have been applied, including a cartoon brain, a computer, a ringing mobile phone, a calendar and chat emojis
  • 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

    Senator Bernie Sanders speaks next to Christian Smalls, founder of the Amazon Labor Union during a rally in the Staten Island borough of New York
  • 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

    A woman is surrounded by a yellow glow as she looks out of an office window
  • 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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