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    Isabel Berwick

    Host and editor, 'Working It' podcast and newsletter

    Isabel Berwick is the host of the FT's Working It podcast about the workplace and writes the weekly Working It newsletter. She is the editorial lead for the FT Women in Business Forum, moderates and hosts FT and external events about the workplace and beyond, and is writing a book about how to thrive at work.

    Isabel joined the FT in 1999 from the Independent on Sunday, where she was the business editor. She held senior editing roles on FT Weekend and the Opinion desk before becoming Work & Careers editor in 2018, overseeing the FT's management, leadership and workplace content. She left that role early in 2023 to focus full-time on the Working It brand.

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      How buying my first bespoke suit helped me through a life crisis

      I felt a wreck when I went to the tailor but after some fabric-based therapy, I could face the world again

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
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      Get rid of the managers

      We look into an off-radar but influential self-management movement. Plus the Office Therapy advice column.

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      Charting the rise of the influencing industry and how experts could make better leaders

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
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      Loneliness is making men miserable but workplaces can help fix it. Plus, the Office Therapy advice column

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
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      The post-pandemic workplace: what to wear?

      Workwear for the new work-life

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
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      Driven to distraction: the curse of meetings and smartphones

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    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
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      It’s not easy luring workers back. But could office life be good for us?

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Working It
      Meet me in the metaverse?

      We all forgot about virtual 3D workspaces, but they are developing fast. Plus, our new Office Therapy advice column

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
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      Do you see me? Staying visible in a hybrid workplace

      You don’t necessarily have to brag to get yourself noticed

    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
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      Why bad managers depress output — as well as their staff

      Also in this week’s newsletter: our new advice column, Office Therapy, helps a CEO deal with a disruptive deputy

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
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      PwC and Deloitte say new hires lack communication skills. But should these recruits conform to boomer workforce rules?

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
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      Why billionaire succession is so hard

      Also in this week’s newsletter: the launch of Office Therapy, a new advice column to solve your workplace dilemmas

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
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      What they don't teach you about money

      Your money ‘personality’ — and how to change it

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      Best of: So, your boss is a narcissist...

      But is narcissism always a bad thing?

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      Where to stay in style in the Danish capital, from a modernist masterpiece to a Moorish palace via a glorious 18th-century grande dame

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      Make like the locals — warm up in a waterfront sauna and then brave a cold dip in a variety of the city’s designated bathing zones

    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
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      Why fair pay matters more than high pay

      Also in today’s newsletter, the workplace buzzwords to take seriously

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
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      Put your questions about investing, saving and earning money to FT’s Claer Barrett and Isabel Berwick

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      Exploring the city centre locations of the hit Danish drama reveals just how rooted it is in political reality

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      How video calls kill creativity

      Also in today’s newsletter, women mark 50 years trading at the London Stock Exchange

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
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      A new work perk: free therapy

      Also in today’s newsletter, the latest tech sector lay-offs

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