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              Emma Jacobs

              Work & Careers Writer

              Emma Jacobs writes features with a particular focus on work, changes in the workplace and office life. Previously, at the FT she was the co-author of the satirical column, Work Tribes and edited features, UK news, as well as working on FT.com's companies, markets and world desks.
              Email Emma Jacobs @emmavj  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
              • Friday, 16 August, 2024
                Leadership
                Working from beach: will Starbucks’ new remote boss set a trend?

                Brian Niccol’s base in California divides opinion among workplace experts

                Seattle, left, and Newport Beach
              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
                Television
                Top 10 shows to stream over the summer holiday

                Escape from loved ones and extreme weather with fashion dramas, ghost stories and sexy spy capers

                A woman with brown hair looks at a man in a blue shirt as they stroll through a park
              • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
                Demographics and population
                When it comes to work, age isn’t just a number

                Changing demographics are set to keep older people employed despite risks highlighted by Biden

                Cartoon people move around a busy office
              • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
                House & Home
                Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents?

                The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off

              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                Nasa
                Would you survive 378 days of team bonding? Nasa takes the test

                Lengthy simulation of life on Mars illuminates the universal features of work, including petty irritations with colleagues

                The CHAPEA crew
              • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
                Work Watch
                Can online reporting stop workplace microaggressions?

                Staff at law firm Hogan Lovells can now log harassment on a tech platform — but some suggest they talk about their problems instead

                Montage image of a megaphone being held up to a laptop screen
              • Monday, 8 July, 2024
                Work & Careers
                Why playing down a privileged background might be a savvy career move

                Some professionals think claiming success is due to their own skills makes them more agreeable

                Illustration of hands holding out three teacups and one big mug while another hand holding a teapot pours tea into all of them
              • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
                Work & Careers
                ‘You have to be around for the moment they speak to you’: how teens affect working parents

                Employers are often less flexible with staff who need to care for older children

                A woman sits on a sofa in a well-lit room
              • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
                Managing yourself
                LinkedIn’s makeover lacks one thing: humour

                If the professional social network is now a place for personal posts, why isn’t it funnier?

              • Friday, 21 June, 2024
                Travel
                The London hotel trying to help guests experience ‘lucid dreaming’

                A ‘world-first’ package at the Kimpton Fitzroy promises more than a good night’s sleep

              • Monday, 17 June, 2024
                ReviewBusiness books
                Business books: what to read this month

                Life advice from a former Teen Vogue editor, supply chain crises, and reportage from the Reddit trading floor

                Montage image of book covers
              • Monday, 17 June, 2024
                OutlookFuture of work
                Employees embrace WFH (work from hairdressers)

                Salons are installing USB ports, extra sockets and quiet areas for calls in a bid to draw back customers

                A smart phone sits propped against a water bottle on a desk as a woman speaks on a Zoom call
              • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
                Childcare
                My son, my working mother and childcare

                More women are juggling paid work with looking after grandchildren

                Mature woman embracing a a little girl
              • Monday, 3 June, 2024
                Work WatchSocial affairs
                Professional make-up artists help executives keep up appearances

                Online scrutiny and ‘Zoom dysmorphia’ are prompting some bosses to look to the experts

                A montage of make-up compacts, lipstick and a brush
              • Monday, 3 June, 2024
                US employment
                US students face recruitment challenges after Gaza protests

                Employers warn of tougher scrutiny following demonstrations over Israel-Hamas war

                Ryna Workman stands at an intersection with four zebra crossings and car lights reflecting off the wet road in New York
              • Friday, 31 May, 2024
                InterviewLunch with the FT
                Palliative care doctor Kathryn Mannix: ‘It’s so much about listening’

                The writer and campaigner on love, last wishes and the divisive debate over assisted dying

                An illustration of a woman in a restaurant. She has black hair and is wearing a chunky necklace
              • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
                Special ReportWellbeing
                Link between wellbeing and productivity is made ‘clear’

                Researchers stress business case for tending to employee wellness

                An exhausted male office worker sitting at his desk in a dark room, face covered by his hands, with visible stress, beside a computer showing business data
              • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
                Working It
                Your boss is not your mother

                A PR blunder highlights the fraught relationship at the centre of our work lives

                Qu Jing
              • Monday, 13 May, 2024
                Electric vehicles
                ‘Easier than pensions’: why electric cars are the hot company perk

                Salary sacrifice schemes provide cheaper access to EVs

                Montage image of cars and bar charts
              • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
                OutlookLondon
                Closure of Beigel Shop leaves a hole in London’s East End

                Rival Brick Lane bakeries attracted queues for decades

                Beigel Bake
              • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
                Leadership
                Shameless comebacks show we are in the age of chutzpah

                Return of humbled politicians and CEOs follows trend for embracing failure

                Illustration of a smiling person with arms upraised and wings strapped to their arms rising up triumphantly out of a rubbish bin
              • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
                Work Watch
                Could ketamine be the next fix for workplace depression?

                Employees are being offered the ‘party drug’ through company health schemes as psychedelic-assisted therapy grows in popularity

                Montage of images with a hand in blue latex glove holding a syringe
              • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
                Wellbeing and fitness
                The active commuters making travelling to work a workout

                People are cycling, running and even skiing to the office for better mental and physical health

                Clair Heaviside makes her way through Manchester’s Northern Quarter as she arrives at work after a running commute from her home in Disley 13 miles away
              • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
                Person in the News
                Richard Gadd, the ‘Baby Reindeer’ comic confronts his past

                The hit show has unleashed a debate about who has the right to tell another’s story

                Illustration of Richard Gadd holding his hands up defensively against a background of a brick wall
              • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
                Working It
                Secrets of perfect panel moderation

                Your job is to be a ‘tour guide’ for the audience, plus the Office Therapy advice column

                Woman facing a seated audience
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