Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept & continue
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign InmyFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
    Most Read
    • Spain says gas link to wider EU could be ready within months
    • Luxury watch prices plummet on weak Chinese consumer confidence
    • Trump under investigation for possible violation of US Espionage Act
    • Donald Trump backs ‘immediate release’ of documents on FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
    • Author Salman Rushdie stabbed at event in New York state
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Business & Economy
    • UK Politics & Policy
    • Brexit
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • UK economy contracts as households cut spending
    • Six daunting challenges facing the next UK prime minister
    • UK’s debt and welfare payments bill set to soar by more than £50bn
    • ‘Gutsy’ Liz Truss is a potential nightmare for Labour, say party strategists
    • Johnson admits UK’s cost of living support is not enough
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • The Qantas chief who brought a new travel disruption term to Australian vernacular
    • Miami becomes the new boom town for corporate lawyers
    • Scotch whisky shows surprising strength in global gloom
    • Norse aims to crack challenge of low-cost transatlantic travel
    • German nuclear operators push on with shutdowns despite rethink
  • Tech
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptofinance
    Most Read
    • Spain says gas link to wider EU could be ready within months
    • Live news updates from August 12: Trump under Espionage Act investigation, Salman Rushdie stabbed in western New York
    • Asset managers bet big on crypto despite market rout
    • Glencore cuts ties with Chinese trader over missing $500mn of copper
    • Next financial crisis likely to centre on private markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Mortgage wake-up call for middle classes
    • Next financial crisis likely to centre on private markets
    • Western companies wake up to China risk
    • Martin Lewis is right: the cost of living emergency is already here
    • Russia’s diplomats are now reduced to propagandists
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    Most Read
    • Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work?
    • Brompton’s Will Butler-Adams: ‘People have no idea what goes into a product. That’s not a good thing’
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Is the UK housing market at a turning point?
    • Formula 1’s Toto Wolff: ‘You need to push people out of their comfort zone’
    • The world’s greatest ice-cream stores
    • How we live now: Afghanistan’s women speak
    • The hottest swimwear — influenced by cold water sport
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Your guide to a disrupted world

Start a 4-week trial

Pilita Clark

Business columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

She has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment, and was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

Add to myFT Digest

Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    My handwriting is terrible. Should I be worried?

    Years of typing and texting have taken their toll. But studies show that we learn and remember more when we write by hand

  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    Office life
    Disengaged, indifferent, deluded? Why young workers have an image problem

    Managers should listen to junior staff, offer good training but not pander to their every whim

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    Conservative Party UK
    The Tories’ wilful blindness on climate is baffling

    Both candidates for the party leadership seem content to ignore environmental and geopolitical reality

  • Sunday, 31 July, 2022
    Business travel
    The nightmare that is today’s air travel

    Flying may be cheaper and safer, but it is considerably more horrible than it used to be

  • Monday, 11 July, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Environment books round-up — the generation facing the brunt of climate change

    A chilling warning; the power players in clean energy; an accessible anthology; and teenage tales of the climate crisis

  • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
    Gender pay gap
    Get ready for salaries to become more public

    Pay transparency measures are on the rise as authorities try to close gender pay gaps

  • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
    Employment
    Help truly wanted, even if you’ve been in jail

    Amid crippling worker shortages, some employers are loosening job requirements

  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Managing yourself
    If you want to be more likeable, try showing more stress

    Nail-biting and lip-chewing could actually be the key to winning friends and achieving success

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Climate change
    How boards can keep up with climate action expectations

    Green policy is turning into the fast-fashion of business strategy, constantly evolving to meet competing demands

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    Flexible working
    Why pay rises for your company’s ‘flight risks’ can backfire

    The Great Resignation has complicated the practice of counter-offering to a worker who threatens to leave

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Work & Careers
    A new wave of tech work is too baffling for too many

    If you don’t know your XaaS from your UX and UI, you are not alone and that’s a problem

  • Sunday, 5 June, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    The perils of overlooking women of a certain age

    When older women get a chance to voice their anger the results can surprise

  • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
    Business travel
    Business flights are in trouble in the world of net zero

    Companies have started to launch ever more inventive ways to cut back on air travel

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Climate change
    HSBC saga reveals how much climate and financial risk are misunderstood

    The Stuart Kirk spat reveals the profound level of uncertainty that makes global warming unlike any other public policy problem

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Best new books on climate and the environment

    Calls to rewild the sea, creative ideas for a clean energy future — and a warning about the human cost of conservation

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Working from home
    The cold call is back and worse than ever

    We all had a break from nuisance calls during the pandemic — so now they seem even more intrusive

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    Executive Pay
    Bonuses are outdated in the age of knowledge work

    Paying people to meet targets is not always effective — and can even backfire

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Working It podcast16 min listen
    ‘Flight shame’ and the return of business travel

    People still want to hang out together at conferences, but is there a better way to do things?

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Climate change29 min
    'Net zero won't change the way we live'

    'Green growth' not 'degrowth' can make societies carbon free by 2050, says the FT's Martin Sandbu

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Climate Leaders
    New SBTi boss takes over as criticisms mount

    Luiz Amaral becomes chief executive at a challenging time for the standard-setter

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Office life
    It’s OK to be quiet in meetings

    Some of the smartest people rarely speak in work gatherings but everyone listens when they do

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Climate change
    Magical thinking on fossil fuels endangers safety

    Cloak of pretence uses a net zero energy loophole to justify expanding oil, gas and coal projects

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    Office life
    What you should know if you’re fiddling your expenses

    The pandemic has eased the scourge of fraudulent claims

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    Future of work
    Where have all the older workers gone and will they ever come back?

    Covid brought a 21st century trend of a greying workforce to a standstill and that’s a problem

Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsGroup SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on TwitterFT ChannelsSecondary Schools

Tools

PortfolioToday's Newspaper (ePaper)Alerts HubBusiness School RankingsEnterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT LiveFT ForumsFT Board DirectorBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2022. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Financial Times

UK Edition

Subscribe for full access
  • Switch to International Edition
  • Top sections
  • Home
  • World
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
  • UK
    • UK Business & Economy
    • UK Politics & Policy
    • Brexit
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptofinance
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports
  • FT recommends
  • Lex
  • Alphaville
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • FTfm
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Community
    • FT Live
    • FT Forums
    • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • Today's Newspaper (ePaper)
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In