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Emma Jacobs

Work & Careers Columnist

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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  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    UK business & economy
    Childcare provision hit by coronavirus cutbacks

    With many providers already under intense financial strain, the drop in demand has hit the sector hard

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    The best books of the week
    The Harpy by Megan Hunter — revenge for infidelity

    A wife takes an unusual vengeance for her husband’s infidelity in this sharp novel about the constraints of domesticity

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Emma Jacobs’s fantasy dinner party

    The FT’s work and careers columnist gets dressed up for a summer’s night of grilled prawns, champagne and Otis

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    InterviewTelevision
    ‘Night Manager’ director Susanne Bier on her new TV thriller

    The film-maker talks about working with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant on HBO’s ‘The Undoing’ — and why she’d love to direct Bond

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    FT SeriesThe return to the office
    How to make the hybrid workforce model work

    While a mix of working from home and the office allows employees more flexibility, it has major challenges

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
    ‘A few slackers want to lie face down in the biscuit tin but we’ve sent them treadmill desks’

    Listen in on the Thrust staff as they try to maintain a fitness regime while returning to the office

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    House & Home
    Marie Kondo: decluttering in the time of Covid

    Who better to help us find order in the chaos of the pandemic than the supreme tidier herself?

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    What does work mean to us?

    Two new books from Noreena Hertz and James Suzman examine our changing relationship with what has always been more than just a job

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Faye Ward, the film producer capturing east London’s teen spirit

    Inspired by the suffragettes, she wanted to tell the story of life for young women now

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    For most UK workers, summer furlough was no paid holiday

    A key differentiator was how confident people were about having a job to return to

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
    ‘Re my blog on returning to work: the title GBBO (Get Back or Bugger Off) was a joke’

    Listen in on the conversations of the Thrust office tenants as they endure remote working

  • Wednesday, 23 September, 2020
    Childcare
    Childcare sectors in urgent need of funding, warn unions and parents

    Coalition of groups say providers in England lost £228m during coronavirus lockdown

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    ReviewTelevision
    BingeWatch — Enlightened reminds us of the horrors of office life

    Led by a dexterous Laura Dern, the show brilliantly explores hierarchies, friendship and power-play in the workplace

  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    Work-life balance
    Is it time to cut back our working hours?

    The pandemic has shown the economic and wellbeing benefits of a four-day week

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
    ‘If I allow a breach, even in a specific and limited way, it will be anarchy’

    Listen in on the conversations of the Thrust office tenants as they endure remote working

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh — mothers and others

    A dystopian world separates women via the right to have children in this clever, intriguing novel

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    Travel
    Tired of WFH? Try ‘work from hotel’

    Could empty bedrooms be filled by remote workers in search of peace and productivity? Emma Jacobs tries it

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
    ‘Feel free to personalise your face masks — I want your creativity to run wild’

    Listen in on the Thrust office workers as some of them prepare to return to the iconic skyscraper

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    InterviewArts
    Justine Simons on how London’s creative sector can bounce back

    The city’s deputy mayor for culture and creative industries says the arts need strategic support to recover from the Covid crisis

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    FT SeriesThe return to the office
    Why workers in some countries are more comfortable about returning to the office

    The pandemic brought a huge shift to remote working and attitudes are diverging about what happens next

  • Monday, 17 August, 2020
    Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
    ‘The future of work is hybrid, or what we’re now calling hy-Toil™’

    Listen in on the conversations of the Thrust office workers as they endure a summer at home

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Childcare
    Lack of childcare takes a mental toll on working parents

    Many mothers and fathers feel under pressure to work as normal and return to the office

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    Corporate culture
    The new workplace perks: beers, baking and poke bowls

    Many companies are sending treats and running events to sustain team culture and morale

  • Tuesday, 4 August, 2020
    How To Spend It
    My love-curate relationship

    A new breed of specialist is now available to help reshape every aspect of your life

  • Monday, 3 August, 2020
    FT SeriesThe return to the office
    How safe is it to go back to the office?

    Reducing the risk of virus transmission is key — here is what experts know so far about the health hazards

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