Sarah O'Connor | Financial Times

Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Tuesday, 22 November, 2022

Mental health

There is a deepening mental health recession

Many countries are struggling with a rise in the numbers of people reporting problems with anxiety and depression

Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

Technology

Tech lay-offs teach us a lesson about the ‘war for talent’

Benevolent workplace dictatorships can seem fine until they’re not so benevolent any more

Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

News in-depthNews in-depth3 min

Can rapid delivery apps get back on track? | FT Transact

The FT’s Sarah O’Connor looks at what’s behind the downloads dive, and options available for companies affected

Tuesday, 1 November, 2022

UK interest rates

How will we remember the age of cheap money?

The end of low interest rates is stripping off a veneer of affluence

Wednesday, 26 October, 2022

UK immigration

Immigration policy will not cure Britain’s labour market ills

The tired debate over migrants being either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ has never served the country well

Tuesday, 18 October, 2022

UK public services

Hunt still has a fiscal hole to fill, but Britain’s fabric is fraying

After a decade of austerity, public services are not an easy target to cut

Tuesday, 11 October, 2022

UK financial crisis

Most people don’t know what GDP growth is

And that is a problem for Liz Truss, who has made it her governing mantra

Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

Health

Making the poor poorer is a false economy

Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending

Tuesday, 27 September, 2022

UK employment

Kwarteng’s policies won’t get inactive Britain working again

The labour force needs investment in health, social care and childcare

Thursday, 22 September, 2022

ExplainerRobotics14 min

Will Tesla's Optimus robot become a reality? | FT Tech

Elon Musk wants to put humanoid robots in his factories - and in your home

Tuesday, 20 September, 2022

UK labour productivity

Are the British really the worst idlers in the world?

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s early characterisation of the UK workforce does not entirely stand up to scrutiny

Tuesday, 13 September, 2022

Corporate culture

The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense

If your staff turn up every day, do exactly what you ask of them, but don’t go above and beyond, they are still working

Tuesday, 6 September, 2022

Trade unions

Forget the 1970s — strikes signal a dysfunctional labour market

Liz Truss is wrong to think deep economic problems can be magicked away with new anti-union rules

Tuesday, 30 August, 2022

Artificial intelligence

Actors worry that AI is taking centre stage

Synthetic voices may not be as good but they can still threaten human talent’s work and rights

Tuesday, 23 August, 2022

Property sector

Why I couldn’t have been more wrong about big city rents

The pandemic has led to lasting changes in the way we work, but that hasn’t made cities more affordable

Monday, 22 August, 2022

FT Swamp Notes

What Brexit teaches the world about migrant work Premium

Britain has ended up with a worst-case scenario

Tuesday, 16 August, 2022

Gender politics

It’s not always the perpetrator who pays for sexual harassment at work

New academic research shows that senior men tend to suffer fewer career consequences than women

Monday, 15 August, 2022

FT Swamp Notes

Can people still afford to be anti-work? Premium

Inflation, falling real wages and turmoil in financial markets may reluctantly push many back into the labour force

Tuesday, 9 August, 2022

Self-employment

Where have all the UK’s self-employed gone?

Britain had a growing army of sole traders, but the pandemic sent that trend into reverse

Tuesday, 2 August, 2022

UK employment

A hotter planet will expose divides in the world of work

Climate change brings risks to health and safety and productivity, and employers need to adapt

Tuesday, 26 July, 2022

UK social care

Exploitation of migrants is rising as care homes struggle to fill jobs

Chronic underfunding of the sector has led to recruitment problems and mistreatment of workers

Tuesday, 19 July, 2022

Social affairs

Young people are suffering a social recession

Rising loneliness among teenagers was a problem even before the pandemic

Tuesday, 5 July, 2022

Working It podcast21 min listen

Is hybrid work a trap for women?

Many women want flexibility but there is evidence it is not good for their careers

Tuesday, 28 June, 2022

UK employment

Young men are slipping quietly through the economy’s cracks

A positive employment trend for young women masks a rise in the proportion of inactive young men

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