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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.
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  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Working from home
    What we talk about when we talk about the office

    Enduring interest in where we work has made it a small talk favourite

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of two people talking
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Cottage cheese is back and feeding online food nostalgia

    Culinary trends of the past resurface to produce comforting content

    A TikTok video shows viewers how to use cottage cheese in a recipe for an Oreo cheesecake ice-cream
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    InterviewRetail & Consumer industry
    Tony’s Chocolonely boss tells opinionated CEOs to ‘stay in your lane’

    Head of Dutch chocolate maker says trend for outspoken executives has gone too far

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    Best of: How to survive the office Christmas party

    … and how to recover if you’ve already embarrassed yourself

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Office life
    Is this the year of the sober office Christmas party?

    Employers switch traditional drinks events for team building such as crafts and sports

    People attend a masterclass at Pizza Pilgrims in London. The company says it has record Christmas bookings this year
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Working It18 min listen
    Luck makes careers. Here’s how to get more of it.

    Some luck is about birth, but some we make ourselves

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Social Media
    Mass X-odus: professionals desert Musk’s network

    Creatives and freelancers miss opportunity and inspiration after decline of X

    Montage image of a broken smartphone screen and the X logo
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    Office life
    Why rudeness has no place at work

    Straight talkers take pride in honesty but can demotivate colleagues

    Illustration of a person pointing their finger in the face of another person who looks stressed
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why it’s often luck, not talent, that takes us to the top

    No one likes to admit it — but life’s lottery has a big role to play in success

    A man in a suit sings into a microphone on stage
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Leadership
    From intern to CEO: does it pay to be a company lifer?

    Executives who spend their career at one place can boost morale and loyalty but risk stifling innovation

    Montage image of Doug McMillon, Mary Barra, Elliott Hill and Duncan Wanblad
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The boom in home schooling

    Parents and children unhappy with traditional education are turning to online alternatives after the pandemic opened the door to new ways of learning

    Ambreen Baig, director of hybrid schools at Dukes Education, pupil Reginald Lakeland, 15 and Jamie Whiteside, co-director of Dukes Education, sit at a table looking at a laptop
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Office life
    The difficult work conversation AI helped me with

    Turning to ChatGPT stopped weeks of procrastination over an email

    Illustration of a person screaming ‘idiot’ at his laptop and knocking over his mug of coffee while a hand holding a bunch of flowers reaches out of the laptop screen towards him
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Work Watch
    Heartbreak leave can help employees recover from shattered relationships

    A bill in the Philippines is trying to secure time off for workers after a break-up. Could it improve productivity elsewhere?

    Montage image of two hands, one above and one below, a breaking heart with tears falling from it
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Office life
    What is the point of corporate art collections?

    Works exhibited by companies can deepen client relationships and tempt staff to the office

    Britta Farber of Deutsche Bank, in front of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Turning the World Upside Down III’, 1996
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    Amazon ends remote work. Will other firms follow?

    CEOs still love the office. Workers still don’t.

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Managing yourself
    What Rick Astley can teach us about giving up

    Singer’s revival after he walked away from fame offers lessons on professional life

    Rick Astley performing
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Over Work — have our jobs become too greedy for our time?

    Brigid Schulte makes a convincing case for a drastic overhaul of the way we earn a living

    A view from outside of two office floors at night. We can see a Christmas tree, one man sitting at a desk and two men gazing out of the windows
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Working from home
    The office is not the only solution

    Demands for workers to return full time have a rose tinted view of in-person work

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Management
    ‘This is not about rooting out a few bad apples’: how bullying became a big issue in film and TV

    Scandals at broadcasters show how unacceptable behaviour can breed in pressured work environments

    Men and women dancing in top hats and gold sequinned suits
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Work Watch
    Who wants to get weighed at work?

    Health MOTs can flag risks but it might be too much to ask staff to step on the scales

    Image of feet with painted nails standing on a bathroom scale
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    FT Magazine
    The amateur sleuths trying to crack real-life cold cases

    A network of DIY detectives is on a mission to solve the mysteries that don’t grab headlines

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why did shared parental leave fall flat?

    Our systems for figuring out childcare have not caught up with an egalitarian society

    A black and white photo of a baby in a nappy hanging on to a line in a garden
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    InterviewLeadership
    ‘It was true mania’: Heston Blumenthal reflects on his mental health crisis

    Chef wants to improve support for staff after recovering from extreme highs that caused insomnia and hallucinations

    Heston Blumenthal on a terrace of his Dinner by Heston restaurant, located at the London Mandarin in Knightsbridge
  • 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
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