Empty offices on Mondays and Fridays spell trouble for businessesPilita Clark: In Australia the spread of hybrid work is leading to fears for the future of city centresMon May 17 2021 - 05:40
Don’t mind the productivity gurus, stay in bed as long as you likeStructural changes not motivational quotes are needed before we go back to the officeMon May 10 2021 - 06:00
The loneliness of the modern office team memberStudies show many workers felt isolated by the way their work in teams was organisedMon May 03 2021 - 05:40
Sick of Zoom? Lucky you don’t need it to save the planetUN climate meetings last week showed difficulties and downsides of running events onlineMon Apr 26 2021 - 05:15
Get ready for the new politics of resentment in the officePilita Clark: A serious threat to office harmony is the deep gulf between those who have and have not been on furlough schemesMon Apr 19 2021 - 05:22
Why so many parliaments are awful places for women to work inSpotlight on Washington and Canberra amid new sexual misconduct allegationsMon Apr 12 2021 - 07:48
Covid has upended the out-of-office email. Hooray!The humble auto-reply has come into its own now that time off really has to mean time offMon Apr 05 2021 - 05:50
The mortifying reason we will never give up office jargonPilita Clark: We like to use it to show off, especially when we feel insecureMon Mar 29 2021 - 05:28
Pilita Clark: What the oddly uplifting Covid jab says about business lifeCompanies should try to replicate the volunteers’ sense of purpose and goodwillMon Mar 22 2021 - 06:49
The post-vaccine world will present its own problems for office workersPilita Clark: In an Israeli catering firm the unvaccinated have to take their packed lunch outsideMon Mar 15 2021 - 06:00
Pilita Clark: The scourge of work email is far worse than you thinkRevolutionary fix needed to address the tyranny of the bloated inboxMon Mar 01 2021 - 05:39
Pilita Clark: Toxic offices don’t change when they go virtualOne common complaint comes from people who belatedly discover they have not been invited to big online work meetingsMon Feb 22 2021 - 06:54
Think that working from home is here to stay? Think againPilita Clark: Research shows people at home are forgotten while office workers accumulate ‘managerial capital’Mon Feb 15 2021 - 06:51
Women aren’t all superstar leaders in a crisis. So what?Female leaders should have the freedom to be as mediocre as any manMon Feb 08 2021 - 05:39
Pilita Clark: Too many boardrooms are climate incompetentBoards talk the talk on climate and social inequality but don’t actMon Feb 01 2021 - 05:17
Family businesses are welcome winners in the pandemicPilita Clark: They embody the best of corporate behaviour by thinking long termMon Jan 25 2021 - 05:47
Covid-19 vaccines will not get us back in the office any time soonPilita Clark: How can employers entice hesitant employees to get the jab?Mon Jan 18 2021 - 05:23
Pilita Clark: Workers shirking are more than just a nuisanceLong resented, the workplace minimalist now raises risk of burnout for colleaguesMon Jan 11 2021 - 06:25
Pilita Clark: Why some firms have survived coronavirusCompanies have transformed themselves, while others have failed make the cutMon Dec 21 2020 - 05:15
Pilita Clark: Do not knock virtual Christmas parties until you try one‘There was widespread agreement that not having to rush for the Tube was an advantage’Mon Dec 14 2020 - 04:48
When we do go back to the office, what should that office look like?Pilita Clark: A hybrid way of working could end much of what was hopeless in open-plan officesMon Dec 07 2020 - 06:17
Pilita Clark: Managing ‘meeting monsters’ to get work doneEvidence suggests meetings are not helping busy people make good decisions about important stuffMon Nov 30 2020 - 07:47
Being polite in work emails is more important than everPilita Clark: 2020 has upped the value of the polite, swift and considerate emailMon Nov 23 2020 - 05:12
Pilita Clark: Time we had a TripAdvisor for investmentIf only we could compare green investments online as easily as hotels and flightsMon Nov 16 2020 - 05:03
Boris Johnson needs an Australian-style Covid crackdown planAustralia’s special power may be, as Johnson might say, its nanny-statismMon Nov 09 2020 - 05:50
Dear older people, could you please slow the hell down?From politics to business and beyond, evergreen elders are setting the bar far too highMon Nov 02 2020 - 05:15
Hurrah for the companies giving staff more time offPilita Clark: The average working week has lengthened since home became our officeMon Oct 26 2020 - 05:00
Covid-19 has shown that much of ‘normal’ life should have been binned years agoPilita Clark: Some of the attempts at recreating normality amid pandemic are shockingMon Oct 19 2020 - 05:00
Why jokes among colleagues are needed now more than everThe pandemic has stolen a basic ingredient from everyday working life: humourMon Oct 12 2020 - 05:30
The hard business lessons Covid is about to teachPilita Clark: Will we ever go back to paying gyms and hair salons a lot of money now we have discovered other ways?Mon Oct 05 2020 - 07:30
Pilita Clark: Hard business lessons Covid is about to teachWill we ever return to paying gyms and hair salons now we have discovered other ways?Mon Oct 05 2020 - 05:44
Pilita Clark: The looming legal minefield of working from homeWhat an employer can and cannot require of staff has suddenly become much more complicatedMon Sept 28 2020 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Companies should consider having a head of remote workingMost leaders will go back to the office. Over time everyone will know that to get ahead you should be in the officeMon Sept 21 2020 - 05:15
Statements about corporate values are so often full of guffLofty ideals can sound great on paper, but too many struggle to match realityMon Sept 14 2020 - 05:00
Pilita Clark: Smart ways to handle remote work, and dumb ones‘We don’t think productivity is a big problem, but a sense of belonging is’Mon Sept 07 2020 - 05:25
Women are bearing the brunt of the Covid-19 recessionPilita Clark: Things have been unusually bad on many levels, starting with job lossesMon Aug 31 2020 - 06:00
Why saying no can make you indispensable at workKnowing how to do it in a pandemic, when job insecurity is rife, is even more importantMon Aug 24 2020 - 05:00
How safe is it to go back to the office?A post-Covid return to the workplace comes with a lot of uncertaintiesTue Aug 04 2020 - 12:05
Pilita Clark: Working from home is starting to pallMaking time for one-to-one conversations with staff is a must for managersMon Aug 03 2020 - 05:39
Pilita Clark: Hiring in a pandemic is not always as easy as it looksMultilayered world of work will be far better when there is a lot more of it to think aboutMon Jul 27 2020 - 05:30
There’s too much office chat – sometimes we need to Slack offBeware the office instant messaging system – it can become a monumental distractionMon Jul 20 2020 - 06:00
Can we finally say farewell to the scourge of hot-desking?Pilita Clark: In the post-Covid office environment, sharing desks will be a no-noMon Jul 06 2020 - 06:00
It’s time email providers fixed the problem of unwanted mailMost of us are too resigned to living with a brimming inbox but Hey might be a solutionMon Jun 29 2020 - 05:45
Five ways to get ahead in the office even if you’re still at homeFiguring out how to look busy and stay in the workplace politics loop are keyMon Jun 22 2020 - 05:39
Pilita Clark: How selfie generation will cope with a DepressionHyper-connected digitally savvy generation might find a way throughMon Jun 15 2020 - 05:30
Pilita Clark: Recovery will be greener than last oneEconomic impacts of pandemic are unlikely to stifle environmental concernsMon Jun 08 2020 - 05:45
Why we’re about to learn if we are really in the A-teamEmployees working remotely may end up being unfairly overlooked for promotionsMon Jun 01 2020 - 07:00
Pilita Clark: A lot of us are losing it in lockdown – but we really shouldn’tThe odd outburst on Zoom is only human but this is not a time for angry words at workMon May 25 2020 - 05:00
Covid-19 has devastated lives and livelihoods but there have been consolationsPilita Clark: A jobs website reported nearly half of UK workers said the lockdown had made them appreciate their family moreMon May 18 2020 - 05:27
Why I’ve had to change my mind about networkingPilita Clark: In a locked down world the need to build connections has never been greater or more physically impossibleMon May 11 2020 - 03:45
