Why not giving a damn won’t stand in your way of success
Caring about our work has become a weird status symbol. But it can make us mad and unproductive,...
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Podcasts de office
A 30-year work anniversary is a freak event to be cheered
We don’t approve of promiscuity in relationships, so why do we admire it in employment? asks Lucy...
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Your rudeness in reception may be used against you
How people arrive at and leave an office building provides rewarding insights for companies, says...
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Google CFO Pichette’s ‘I quit’ note is a classic in a dodgy genre
His Kilimanjaro-inspired resignation memo mixes work-life epiphany with pitch for job offers,...
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Endless digital feedback will make us needy and unkind
Knowledge of how others rate us can be useful, but too much of it is unhealthy and confusing,...
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Wells Fargo’s happy:grumpy ratio is no way to audit staff
There are better ways to gauge employee contentment than just asking, says Lucy Kellaway
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My solution to the anguish of unanswered emails
Not responding is a sane response to inbox overload but it breeds insanity on the other side,...
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Facebook and the ‘daily average people’ formerly known as users
The company’s creation of a dedicated ‘empathy team’ does not amount to an emotional awakening,...
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After 15 years of practice, why are we still so awful at email?
Two new trends are emerging in greetings, both bad. Sign-offs are getting worse too, writes Lucy...
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White collar eavesdropping will cure your itchy feet
We sometimes envy the trappings of other people’s jobs. But the work itself? Never, says Lucy...
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Losing the fear can be liberating - and dangerous
Work anxiety tends to decline with age, but watch out for the complacency catch, writes Lucy...
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We need new excuses for not replying to emails
Lucy Kellaway says technology is steadily ruining all the old favourites
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In defence of sycophantic wage slaves
Luke Johnson is wrong. Flattery is crucial to survival in the corporate world and beyond
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Have you heard that gossip is good?
The true value of such morsels has nothing to do with the subject and is all to do with purveyor
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Big Brother can watch me work any day
So long as everyone knows they are being monitored and why, it is not such a bad idea
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Small talk makes a big difference
If you don’t chat, people don’t like you much. So if women keep quiet at work, it matters
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I want to put my whole workplace on a new diet
Lucy Kellaway says she is ditching al desko lunches. Anticipation, ritual and smugness point the...
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Cheer up, this is a golden age for office workers
For privileged professionals at least, working life is better than it has ever been
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Words that warn you not to open an email
What is the most off-putting thing you can write in the subject line of an email? Lucy Kellaway...
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Facebook’s offices are too cool for women
In insisting on a chilly conference room, Mark Zuckerberg is exhibiting dotcom dogmatism, says...
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