When desk and home collide‘Starting a few centimetres outside the frame of the webcam, each person creates their own world’Simon Kuper: my two decades as a working-from-home pioneer‘When I realised I could write my column from anywhere, I bought a flat in Paris. I suspect the FT didn’t even notice.’ Photography by Thomas DemandWhat managing a supermarket through Covid taught me‘It weighed heavily on me just how important my role is, as a store manager, to keep people upbeat’Lee Friedlander’s glimpses of the computer revolution of the 1980sImages show a time when hefty electronics promised to change the world of workWhat lining up office workers in height order tells us about powerMinna Kantonen’s photos show us how arbitrary our workplace hierarchies of salary and seniority areResolutions for 2021 after a year working from homeZoom forced me to reappraise the humble phone, which cuts through the endless email chains and WhatsApp pingingMore from this Series‘I want to die’: inside Japan’s gruelling recruitment seasonHalf a million students a year undertake the rigid process in hope of getting a job for lifeBongo drums and Monopoly jail: the absurd world of team-building in photosHow these activities transform zones of grey conformity into an artificial, discombobulating experienceJames Rebanks: nature is my office, come rain or shine‘There is a kind of fellowship of the fields. We have a water-cooler equivalent in our roadside chats’Endia Beal’s photographs explore workplace racism in corporate AmericaHer work has sparked conversations about how conventional ideas of ‘professionalism’ are used against African-American womenHow office plants offer a tiny bit of anarchy in our working livesSaskia Groneberg’s photos highlight how even the workplace can’t keep out the spark of lifeThe work Christmas party is dead. Hooray!Artist Alex Prager’s installation will have you feeling anything but festive
When desk and home collide‘Starting a few centimetres outside the frame of the webcam, each person creates their own world’Simon Kuper: my two decades as a working-from-home pioneer‘When I realised I could write my column from anywhere, I bought a flat in Paris. I suspect the FT didn’t even notice.’ Photography by Thomas DemandWhat managing a supermarket through Covid taught me‘It weighed heavily on me just how important my role is, as a store manager, to keep people upbeat’Lee Friedlander’s glimpses of the computer revolution of the 1980sImages show a time when hefty electronics promised to change the world of workWhat lining up office workers in height order tells us about powerMinna Kantonen’s photos show us how arbitrary our workplace hierarchies of salary and seniority areResolutions for 2021 after a year working from homeZoom forced me to reappraise the humble phone, which cuts through the endless email chains and WhatsApp pingingMore from this Series‘I want to die’: inside Japan’s gruelling recruitment seasonHalf a million students a year undertake the rigid process in hope of getting a job for lifeBongo drums and Monopoly jail: the absurd world of team-building in photosHow these activities transform zones of grey conformity into an artificial, discombobulating experienceJames Rebanks: nature is my office, come rain or shine‘There is a kind of fellowship of the fields. We have a water-cooler equivalent in our roadside chats’Endia Beal’s photographs explore workplace racism in corporate AmericaHer work has sparked conversations about how conventional ideas of ‘professionalism’ are used against African-American womenHow office plants offer a tiny bit of anarchy in our working livesSaskia Groneberg’s photos highlight how even the workplace can’t keep out the spark of lifeThe work Christmas party is dead. Hooray!Artist Alex Prager’s installation will have you feeling anything but festive