Modern offices have full meeting rooms and empty desks. It’s time for a rethinkHybrid working has exposed wasteful, outdated designs that one Silicon Valley boss wants to blow upMon Oct 02 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: What Burberry’s Tube station stunt taught me about the marketed mindWe’ve let the priorities of fashion brands and duty-free shops override those of the hapless passengerMon Sept 25 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Caring duties employees face in their personal lives need more recognition from managersMillions of staff secretly juggle busy jobs with demanding caring duties that need more recognitionMon Sept 18 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: Look out when the B-team is left in chargeMinions get a chance to shine when the boss is away, as long as they don’t muck upMon Sept 11 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: The hell of other people in the officeThe scourge of loud or smelly co-workers is back – and there’s hot-desking issues tooMon Aug 21 2023 - 05:00
The perils of impenetrable gibberish at workA Hungarian doctor and Donald Trump show why it’s important to get your message across clearly at workMon Aug 14 2023 - 05:00
Sun, surf – and the politics of taking a holidayVacations are rarely straightforward for busy leaders but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t take themMon Aug 07 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: What next for working from home?From return to office demands to productivity levels, a lot of what we think we know about remote work is wrongMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Tattoos have reached a turning point at workMost people in your office may now be inked and some are probably earning more than those who are uninkedMon Jul 24 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: Thankless, invisible work that eats into time and career priorities is overwhelmingly done by womenLearning to say no is one of the most valuable workplace skillsMon Jul 17 2023 - 05:30
The awful agony of the misdirected emailIt happens to the best of us, but it’s the reaction of the hapless recipient that really countsMon Jul 10 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Move over millennials, perennials are on the march Today’s generational labels are flawed and divisive but thankfully more and more of us have stopped acting our ageMon Jul 03 2023 - 05:00
The murky world of the job referenceBeing asked to recommend a dud ex-colleague is just the start of itMon Jun 19 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Big Tech hurting small talk and schoolchildren’s prospectsApple’s VR headset offers little to enhance real-world communication skills which are becoming ever more important to progression at workMon Jun 12 2023 - 05:00
Out of office: Time to free ourselves from email overloadOffice life will always be grinding if we do not stop the torrent of communicationsMon Jun 05 2023 - 05:30
Pilita Clark: What we get wrong about ageing and workThere is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterpartsMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Is there any upside in losing your job?As widespread firing becomes standard business practice, researchers are finding unexpected consequencesMon May 22 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: Acronyms can make complex things at work simple, but use them carefullyResistance to irksome abbreviations has proved futile, so let’s enjoy the best of themMon May 15 2023 - 05:00
Push-buttons are coming back, hurrah!The remorseless advance of the touchscreen needs a rethinkMon May 08 2023 - 05:00
Networking: Being a super schmoozer is an art that can be learnedFew people enjoy networking, but working the room graciously is an art that can be learnedMon May 01 2023 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Business travel has not rebounded – and no guarantee it willHigh airfares, flexible working patterns and climate change concerns will continue to weigh on the industryMon Apr 24 2023 - 06:00
From ‘Sunday scaries’ to ‘rage applying’, workplace buzzwords to take seriously – and those to ignoreWork trends popular on social media aren’t always reflected in the real-life workplaceMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
Why five days in the office doesn’t add upPilita Clark: Hybrid working helps keep staff and lowers office costs – but some pushback will continueMon Mar 27 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: The envy at work that dares not speak its nameA younger or more talented work rival is not a foe, it’s the passage of time that is our adversaryMon Mar 20 2023 - 05:00
Is WhatsApp making work life more nasty and brutish?A workplace divided by dozens of febrile WhatsApp group discussions is not necessarily a happy oneMon Mar 13 2023 - 05:00
Women have raced into the boardroom, but now comes the hard partPilita Clark: Appointing more female chief executives and chairs is a challenge that will take longerMon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
How to recover from a faux pas in workCertain situations are so bad they call for an outright lieMon Feb 27 2023 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: A boss’s foibles can be a delightQuirks, if harmless, can humanise a manager and have a pleasingly unifying effect on staffMon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00
How not to be the conference panellist from hellStart off by obeying the basic ground rules that popular panel speakers know wellMon Feb 13 2023 - 05:00
Death of weather app shows how corporate deals can leave consumers worse offApple killing off Dark Sky weather app may be a window into so-called killer acquisitionsMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
Employee fined for ‘time theft’? Welcome to Big Brotherish surveillanceBig Brotherish apps can monitor the websites workers visit and the programs they use to tally up how much time is spent on eachMon Jan 30 2023 - 06:10
Forget the idea of a central business districtReviving city districts requires new planning policies promoting pedestrian-friendly streets, parks and, crucially, more homes in the heart of the cityMon Jan 23 2023 - 06:23
Pilita Clark: Changes at work in 2022 that will endure — thank GodOffice life altered hugely this year, sometimes for the better and this state of things is fast movingWed Dec 28 2022 - 06:00
Ho, ho, ho, it’s off to work we don’t goPilita Clark: Workers find it hard to concentrate on the job as Christmas loomsMon Dec 19 2022 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: If you thought business jargon was bad ...New research shows doctors speak in ways that baffle — and potentially cause real harmMon Dec 12 2022 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: The unexpected perils of taking a sabbaticalTaking extended leave doesn't always produce the expected resultsMon Dec 05 2022 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Get ready for a net zero business backlashA welcome UN push to tighten corporate rules is sending shudders through some boardroomsMon Nov 28 2022 - 05:15
The COP jamboree desperately needs a rebootGap between promise and reality is spurring a welcome raft of ideas to bring more scientific rigour and accountability to COP commitmentsSun Nov 20 2022 - 13:12
Climate tech 2.0 still has a one per cent problemMost new technologies will not develop quickly enough to make a difference in the short-termWed Nov 16 2022 - 12:50
Women are big losers in the politics of pocketsYou shouldn’t need to be a man to have proper pockets in your clothesMon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: No need for defeatism on climate changeChallenges abound, but ahead of Cop27, governments and regulators are finally getting seriousFri Nov 04 2022 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: Swearing allegiance to the many benefits of using foul languageCursing may cause offence, but we would be a lot worse off without itMon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
The world needs more ‘desk-bombers’Anxiety about unscheduled office conversations is as pointless as fears about using the phoneMon Oct 17 2022 - 05:30
Pilita Clark: A woman in power needs the freedom to be as mediocre as any manExpectations for women in the workplace to be uniformly exceptional are tiresome and unfairMon Oct 10 2022 - 05:00
Business cards are back in businessPilita Clark: Digital tech is killing the card as we knew it, which is no bad thingMon Oct 03 2022 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: Men who have their legs broken to gain height are not entirely madResearch shows taller people are more successful but leg-lengthening surgery is still a step too farMon Sept 26 2022 - 05:00
Why is it so hard to get anyone on the phone?As anger rises over clueless customer service there has never been a better time to offer a human instead of an online formMon Sept 19 2022 - 06:00
The hellish business of the headshotThe quest for the perfect professional photo is growing, but let’s keep it in proportionMon Sept 12 2022 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: ‘Woman got mooed at for expressing milk at Goldman Sachs’A female banker’s riveting memoir raises yet more questions about standards of conduct on Wall StreetMon Sept 05 2022 - 05:45
Pilita Clark: Stumping people with brainteasers is no way to hire the bestFinding the most suitable candidates takes a much more careful approachMon Aug 29 2022 - 05:00
