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Emma Jacobs

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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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  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT business books: May edition

    Addressing social class at work and navigating politics to get things done — here are this month’s top titles

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Work & Careers
    The enduring fascination of the ‘power spouse’

    Partners who surrender their own professional ambitions spark endless curiosity

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Greener getaways: all aboard the 09:02 Country Garden Express from London

    Leave the car behind for a first-class train journey whose destination is a day of indulgence and exploration on a sustainable estate-cum-pastoral idyll: The Newt in Somerset

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    Business travel
    Why our work trips are starting to look like holidays

    The blurring of business travel and leisure — bleisure — is booming in an ‘always-on’ world

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Managing yourself
    The new networking for a hybrid era

    Big real-life gatherings can seem daunting, and many people are rethinking how to re-establish professional connections

  • 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

  • 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

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Travel
    Birch and the future of ‘work near home’

    A converted Hertfordshire manor house offers a place to ‘live, work and play’

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    Office life
    Sibling rivalries, spousal squabbles — it’s great to be back in the office

    You may not be able to choose your workplace family but, unlike your real one, you can always ditch them and move on

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Twitter Inc
    Twitter’s edit button will not rewrite your life

    Combating abuse and scams would be a better priority for the social media app

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    Working It podcast21 min listen
    Does office romance actually make you a better worker?

    Mixing business and pleasure is high risk, but there are ways to make it work

  • Monday, 21 March, 2022
    Management
    What makes staff want to leave their jobs? Ask them

    Don’t wait for an exit interview to talk to employees — the ‘stay’ interview helps retain them in the first place

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Womenswear
    Is the underwired bra over?

    Two years of working from home has led many professional women to switch to softer or sportier styles — or no bra at all

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT business books: March edition

    From creating more connected teams to digital transformation — here are this month’s top titles

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Why US mothers deserve a $2,400 pay cheque

    ‘Having it all’ too often means ‘doing it all’, argues Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Nica Burns: risk-taker who worked to reopen London’s theatreland

    Covid lockdowns tested the impresario’s entrepreneurial skills

  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    Recruitment
    Boomerang employees: returning with new skills and experience

    Going back to a previous employer offers many benefits — but there are risks

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    Parenting and families
    Is fertility a topic for the workplace?

    All the policies supporting motherhood will fail if the corporate culture is hostile

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    InterviewTelevision
    What next for Pamela Adlon after the final season of ‘Better Things’?

    The star, director and co-writer of the FX comedy talks parenting, #MeToo — and how much of her real life makes it on to TV

  • Sunday, 13 February, 2022
    Management
    Do you suffer from ‘meeting bloat’ ?

    Some corporate leaders are holding fewer meetings — or banning them altogether

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    Flexible working
    Employers beware: hybrid work weakens loyalty

    As knowledge workers spend less time in the office, their attachment to the organisation will diminish

  • Sunday, 16 January, 2022
    Corporate culture
    It is the workplace, not women’s confidence, that needs to be fixed

    A new book suggests corporate change is better than asking female staff to work on their own self-belief

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Flexible working
    Why modern managers are reviving old-school staff handbooks

    Corporate leaders are rewriting the rules of the workplace in response to the challenges of remote working

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    FT SeriesHow to manage stress and anxiety at work
    Emotional by Leonard Mlodinow — more than a feeling

    The physicist’s latest book illuminates how the shadowy unconscious shapes our everyday ‘rational’ behaviour

  • Saturday, 1 January, 2022
    InterviewManaging yourself
    How the science of motivation helps with New Year’s resolutions

    Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioural science, discusses the best way to set goals — and stick to them

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