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Lucy Kellaway

Former Associate Editor and Work & Career Columnist

Lucy Kellaway was an Associate Editor and management columnist of the FT. For 15 years her weekly Monday column poked fun at management fads and jargon and celebrated the ups and downs of office life.

She is the co-founder of the charity Now Teach.

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  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Career change
    Four big lessons for getting the most out of a career change

    Quitting journalism to start again as a 50-something teacher taught the value of timing and being radical

  • Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
    Travel
    Can Cliveden’s CBD spa cure insomniac Lucy Kellaway?

    A new ‘sleep experience’ at the historic English hotel promises to ‘re-energize and rejuvenate’ guests

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    Why is it still considered OK to be ageist?

    Lucy Kellaway on an unspoken prejudice — and a puzzling discrimination against our future selves

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Crypto in the classroom: Lucy Kellaway on the kids’ new craze

    In an age when trading apps have made investment cool, understanding money is more important than ever for school children

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign4 min
    How to achieve financial literacy

    Patrick Jenkins, FT deputy editor, introduces the mission of the FT's Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (Flic)

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    Managing yourself
    Necessary but corrosive: Lucy Kellaway on ambition

    The former FT journalist was brought up to despise aspiration. Now she considers it a good thing, but it must be proportionate

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The summer that changed my life

    From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them 

  • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway — an absorbing and delightful tale

    The former FT journalist writes with warmth and wit, turning her teaching experience into a frank discussion about the role of schools

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    The Weekend Essay
    Can you change yourself? Lucy Kellaway on the reality of reinvention

    As the pandemic prompts millions to reconsider their life choices, FT columnist-turned-teacher offers the benefit of her experience

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Beyond Order, by Jordan Peterson — more orders from chaos

    The culture warrior and YouTube philosopher comes across as an earnest preacher in his life-coaching sequel

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    The Weekend Essay
    Lucy Kellaway: what is the point of schools?

    After a year of Covid disruption, it is time to rethink our attitude to education

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Management
    Telling staff to ‘buck up’ breaks management’s golden rule

    Reprimanding miserable employees during lockdown is bound to backfire

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 202052 sec
    James Suzman: 'In the 20th century, the office became the village'

    The death of the office - and our home-working future - with Lucy Kellaway, Andrew Hill and James Suzman

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway heads back to school — anxiously

    After a sleepless night, a return to her classroom in an east London comprehensive brings reasons for concern — and delight

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: what my students have taught me about race

    In an east London classroom, the realities of racism come sharply into focus

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: We will miss the office if it dies

    As an FT columnist she skewered office culture — but, she argues, it is something to treasure

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: Is it OK to be happy in lockdown?

    So long as I don’t look at the news, my stress levels are as low as I can remember

  • Thursday, 19 March, 2020
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway: tackling coronavirus in the classroom

    The FT columnist turned teacher is trying to keep a cool head — but it gets harder by the day

  • Friday, 27 December, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Lucy Kellaway — don’t worry less, worry smarter

    Fretting too much is no fun but there’s an upside to feeling anxious

  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
    FT CollectionsClimate change
    Best of our weekend letters 2019

    From climate change and Kylie Jenner’s wealth to sex strikes and Lucy Kellaway’s maths

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Semicolon by Cecelia Watson — a mark of distinction

    Lucy Kellaway reads about how the semicolon has been decried for too long; time for a reappraisal

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019
    Lucy Kellaway on turning 60 — and starting out afresh

    From work to dating, the life of an ‘aged adolescent’ is neither slow nor predictable

  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
    FT Globetrotter
    My night as an oligarch, by Lucy Kellaway

    At £42,000, the Mandarin Oriental’s new penthouse is London’s most expensive hotel suite — but is it worth it?

  • Monday, 4 March, 2019
    Career change
    Does social status still matter when you reach a certain age?

    When she quit the FT to become a teacher, Lucy Kellaway thought society would view her differently

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    House & Home
    Townhouses offer more downs than ups

    After 55 years of vertical living in townhouses, Lucy Kellaway is loving her new lateral life

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