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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)
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Work & Careers
    Why playing down a privileged background might be a savvy career move

    Some professionals think claiming success is due to their own skills makes them more agreeable

    Illustration of hands holding out three teacups and one big mug while another hand holding a teapot pours tea into all of them
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Work & Careers
    ‘You have to be around for the moment they speak to you’: how teens affect working parents

    Employers are often less flexible with staff who need to care for older children

    A woman sits on a sofa in a well-lit room
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    Managing yourself
    LinkedIn’s makeover lacks one thing: humour

    If the professional social network is now a place for personal posts, why isn’t it funnier?

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Travel
    The London hotel trying to help guests experience ‘lucid dreaming’

    A ‘world-first’ package at the Kimpton Fitzroy promises more than a good night’s sleep

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Life advice from a former Teen Vogue editor, supply chain crises, and reportage from the Reddit trading floor

    Montage image of book covers
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    OutlookFuture of work
    Employees embrace WFH (work from hairdressers)

    Salons are installing USB ports, extra sockets and quiet areas for calls in a bid to draw back customers

    A smart phone sits propped against a water bottle on a desk as a woman speaks on a Zoom call
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    My son, my working mother and childcare

    More women are juggling paid work with looking after grandchildren

    Mature woman embracing a a little girl
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Work WatchSocial affairs
    Professional make-up artists help executives keep up appearances

    Online scrutiny and ‘Zoom dysmorphia’ are prompting some bosses to look to the experts

    A montage of make-up compacts, lipstick and a brush
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    US employment
    US students face recruitment challenges after Gaza protests

    Employers warn of tougher scrutiny following demonstrations over Israel-Hamas war

    Ryna Workman stands at an intersection with four zebra crossings and car lights reflecting off the wet road in New York
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Palliative care doctor Kathryn Mannix: ‘It’s so much about listening’

    The writer and campaigner on love, last wishes and the divisive debate over assisted dying

    An illustration of a woman in a restaurant. She has black hair and is wearing a chunky necklace
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Special ReportWellbeing
    Link between wellbeing and productivity is made ‘clear’

    Researchers stress business case for tending to employee wellness

    An exhausted male office worker sitting at his desk in a dark room, face covered by his hands, with visible stress, beside a computer showing business data
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Working It
    Your boss is not your mother

    A PR blunder highlights the fraught relationship at the centre of our work lives

    Qu Jing
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    ‘Easier than pensions’: why electric cars are the hot company perk

    Salary sacrifice schemes provide cheaper access to EVs

    Montage image of cars and bar charts
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    OutlookLondon
    Closure of Beigel Shop leaves a hole in London’s East End

    Rival Brick Lane bakeries attracted queues for decades

    Beigel Bake
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Leadership
    Shameless comebacks show we are in the age of chutzpah

    Return of humbled politicians and CEOs follows trend for embracing failure

    Illustration of a smiling person with arms upraised and wings strapped to their arms rising up triumphantly out of a rubbish bin
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    Work Watch
    Could ketamine be the next fix for workplace depression?

    Employees are being offered the ‘party drug’ through company health schemes as psychedelic-assisted therapy grows in popularity

    Montage of images with a hand in blue latex glove holding a syringe
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Wellbeing and fitness
    The active commuters making travelling to work a workout

    People are cycling, running and even skiing to the office for better mental and physical health

    Clair Heaviside makes her way through Manchester’s Northern Quarter as she arrives at work after a running commute from her home in Disley 13 miles away
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Person in the News
    Richard Gadd, the ‘Baby Reindeer’ comic confronts his past

    The hit show has unleashed a debate about who has the right to tell another’s story

    Illustration of Richard Gadd holding his hands up defensively against a background of a brick wall
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Working It
    Secrets of perfect panel moderation

    Your job is to be a ‘tour guide’ for the audience, plus the Office Therapy advice column

    Woman facing a seated audience
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The rise of the chief AI officer

    More companies are appointing staff to oversee the technology. What do these senior leaders actually do?

    Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, in the company’s Manhattan office
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Working It14 min listen
    What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

    A growing number of people travel much further, but less often

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Anxious Generation — should phones be taken away from teens?

    Jonathan Haidt argues that social media and gaming have disastrously rewired childhood, but haven’t we been here before?

    A teenage girl walks along a street while looking at her mobile phone
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Working from home
    The rise of the supercommuter

    More people are embracing longer work journeys for better quality of life

    Mohammed Marikar, pictured sitting in the driver’s seat of his car putting a destination into the GPS
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Future of work
    Commuting is back — but not as we knew it

    Pandemic predictions that the daily journey to work would die off are greatly exaggerated, according to FT analysis

    Montage showing commuters on a train, a double-decker bus and chart bars
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    Work Watch
    Menopause support must tread a fine line between awareness and stigma

    More employers are offering help but must avoid the risk of ‘meno-washing’

    FT montage of a woman surrounded by the female gender symbol
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