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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)
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Beauty
    Hair systems and the end of British baldness

    Toupees have entered the 21st century

    A barber’s shop illustration
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    ‘It’s not the parents’ fault’: digital rights campaigner Beeban Kidron

    The film director turned crossbench peer on battling Big Tech to safeguard children and how losing her voice gave her an insight into power

    Stylized illustration of a woman with gray hair and glasses, set against a colorful cafe interior with modern decor and red chairs
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Leadership
    The power of sleep in a crisis

    Do CEOs always need to be on duty to do a good job?

    A person in bed turns off their alarm clock, which is showing 6am
  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
    Work & Careers
    Side hustles, Zoom waves and the Great Casualisation: how Covid shaped new ways to work

    Five years after lockdown, what are the lasting effects and the forgotten pandemic trends?

    Illustration of people representing work from home, video calls, leadership and travel
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Happiness interventions, navigating relationships with the boss (or when you’re the boss) and a road map for perfectionists

    Three book covers
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    The AI chatbots offering workplace counsel

    Virtual mentors offer cheaper — but more limited — advice to executives

    Montage of a laptop, speech bubbles and stars
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Leadership
    Can businesses ever run a true meritocracy?

    Corporate leaders are ditching diversity for performance-based promotion. Critics say it is not that simple

    Montage image of a hand pointing upwards, a ladder and a zigzagging arrow
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Special ReportUK’s Leading Management Consultants
    ‘Variety of work’ draws mid-career movers into consulting

    Candidates hired from other sectors bring valuable insider knowledge on what clients really want

    A middle-aged man with short grey hair and a serious expression wears a dark grey jumper over a floral-collared shirt, standing against a plain grey wall
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Work Watch
    Age discrimination payouts are getting bigger

    High value cases of dismissed senior leaders show older workers must be taken seriously

    Montage image of an older woman looking worriedly at her computer with triangles and pound signs in the background
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Working from home
    Office attendance is becoming a performance metric

    Return to work mandates can weed out underperforming staff but risk pushing away valued workers

    Adrià Voltà illustration of a noughts and crosses board, with three offices in a row defeating four houses in random squares
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    OutlookFood & Beverage
    Diet Coke is a symbol of modern office culture

    Caffeinated soda is a productivity boost for those who claim to work punishingly long hours

    A woman with red curly hair wearing a leopard-print outfit drinks from a Diet Coke can
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Corporate culture
    The human resources reckoning

    Few have sympathy for HR, but in difficult circumstances people managers are needed more than ever

    Montage of a clipboard with red crosses, and people attending a workplace seminar in the background
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Parenting and families
    Family values cosplay takes over the Oval Office

    Save us from the ‘performative parenting’ of Musk and Vance

    X Musk sits on the shoulders of his father, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The tyranny of ‘teenage wellness’

    Is the profusion of adolescent spa packages and mindfulness apps simply contributing to the pressures that young people face?

    A woman in a white house coat, with her hair wrapped in a white towels lies down with her hands behind her head. She is wearing a white face mask
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The DEI backlash: employers ‘reframing not retreating’

    Most companies looking for middle ground between quitting schemes and provoking conservative activists

    Montage image of a picture frame, logos for target, McDonald’s and Meta, and weighing scales
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Work WatchWork-life balance
    ‘Severance’ shows we long to leave work behind

    The hit drama takes the post-pandemic dilemma of work-life balance — or blurring — to a dystopian extreme

    FT montage of the central character of the TV show ‘Severance’, with the top of his head replaced with a man working at a desk
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Working It26 min listen
    Finale: How work has changed since we started this show

    Even after the pandemic, workplaces are still about people

  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Legal services
    Why the billable hour is still king in the legal world

    High bonus payments to lawyers hitting targets show the model’s staying power in face of AI

    Illustration of a egg timer with a legal wig on top of it. The sand that has fallen to the bottom has turned into coins. The timer is on a desk surrounded by papers and a pair of spectacles
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Working It
    Like the US president, work culture is changing Premium content

    The swearing in of President Donald Trump is fuelling a rethink on DEI and other work programmes

    Donald Trump
  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Don’t be fooled by Demi Moore’s Golden Globes success

    Moore’s win is seen as a sign that Hollywood no longer pigeonholes female stars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves

    A woman with long dark hair, wearing a golden strapless dress, clutches a trophy
  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    Life & Arts
    My new year’s resolution? Only connect

    The ‘fresh start effect’ is a powerful motivator — but so is a recognition of the paths we’ve already travelled

  • 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
    InterviewThe CEO
    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

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