• October 4 2022
  Health

  Making the poor poorer is a false economy

  Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending

  
• September 27 2022
  UK employment

  Kwarteng’s policies won’t get inactive Britain working again

  The labour force needs investment in health, social care and childcare

  
• September 22 2022
  ExplainerRobotics14 min

  Will Tesla's Optimus robot become a reality? | FT Tech

  Elon Musk wants to put humanoid robots in his factories - and in your home

  
• September 20 2022
  UK labour productivity

  Are the British really the worst idlers in the world?

  Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s early characterisation of the UK workforce does not entirely stand up to scrutiny

  
• September 13 2022
  Corporate culture

  The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense

  If your staff turn up every day, do exactly what you ask of them, but don’t go above and beyond, they are still working

  
• September 6 2022
  Trade unions

  Forget the 1970s — strikes signal a dysfunctional labour market

  Liz Truss is wrong to think deep economic problems can be magicked away with new anti-union rules

  
• August 30 2022
  Artificial intelligence

  Actors worry that AI is taking centre stage

  Synthetic voices may not be as good but they can still threaten human talent’s work and rights

  
• August 23 2022
  Property sector

  Why I couldn’t have been more wrong about big city rents

  The pandemic has led to lasting changes in the way we work, but that hasn’t made cities more affordable

  
• August 22 2022
  FT Swamp Notes

  What Brexit teaches the world about migrant work Premium content

  Britain has ended up with a worst-case scenario

  
• August 16 2022
  Gender politics

  It’s not always the perpetrator who pays for sexual harassment at work

  New academic research shows that senior men tend to suffer fewer career consequences than women

  
• August 15 2022
  FT Swamp Notes

  Can people still afford to be anti-work? Premium content

  Inflation, falling real wages and turmoil in financial markets may reluctantly push many back into the labour force

  
• August 9 2022
  Self-employment

  Where have all the UK’s self-employed gone?

  Britain had a growing army of sole traders, but the pandemic sent that trend into reverse

  
• August 2 2022
  UK employment

  A hotter planet will expose divides in the world of work

  Climate change brings risks to health and safety and productivity, and employers need to adapt

  
• July 26 2022
  UK social care

  Exploitation of migrants is rising as care homes struggle to fill jobs

  Chronic underfunding of the sector has led to recruitment problems and mistreatment of workers

  
• July 19 2022
  Social affairs

  Young people are suffering a social recession

  Rising loneliness among teenagers was a problem even before the pandemic

  
• July 5 2022
  Working It podcast21 min listen

  Is hybrid work a trap for women?

  Many women want flexibility but there is evidence it is not good for their careers

  
• June 28 2022
  UK employment

  Young men are slipping quietly through the economy’s cracks

  A positive employment trend for young women masks a rise in the proportion of inactive young men

  
• June 14 2022
  Employment

  Farewell to the servant economy

  ‘On-demand’ services might have made people feel wealthy, but now the model is in jeopardy

  
• June 7 2022
  UK employment

  Why are we all working so hard?

  The intensification of work doesn’t seem to be making us richer, but it does appear to be making us sicker

  
• May 31 2022
  UK employment

  Splintered UK labour market makes a wage-price spiral unlikely

  The decline of trade unions and rise of self-employment argue against a repeat of 1970s-style inflation

  
• May 24 2022
  Minimum-Living wage

  Why a higher UK minimum wage fails to spur productivity

  A British experiment ended up with companies accepting lower profits, charging more or cutting investment

  
• May 17 2022
  UK employment

  Beware the promise of salary advance schemes

  Such products look increasingly attractive to some employees as the cost of living crisis bites

  
• May 10 2022
  New Zealand

  New Zealand’s jobs law will cause ripples beyond its shores

  Introducing fair pay agreements would reverse 30 years of labour market deregulation

  
• May 3 2022
  UK employment

  Rot festers in the lower depths of the British labour market

  Poor regulation of umbrella companies is bad for workers, taxpayers and decent businesses alike

  
• April 26 2022
  Pension automatic enrolment

  When a pensions policy is a resounding success, we should say so

  There remains more to do but automatic enrolment has had a transformational effect