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Pilita Clark

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

She has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment, and was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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  • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
    Managing yourself
    If you want to be more likeable, try showing more stress

    Nail-biting and lip-chewing could actually be the key to winning friends and achieving success

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Climate change
    How boards can keep up with climate action expectations

    Green policy is turning into the fast-fashion of business strategy, constantly evolving to meet competing demands

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    Flexible working
    Why pay rises for your company’s ‘flight risks’ can backfire

    The Great Resignation has complicated the practice of counter-offering to a worker who threatens to leave

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Work & Careers
    A new wave of tech work is too baffling for too many

    If you don’t know your XaaS from your UX and UI, you are not alone and that’s a problem

  • Sunday, 5 June, 2022
    Workplace diversity & equality
    The perils of overlooking women of a certain age

    When older women get a chance to voice their anger the results can surprise

  • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
    Business travel
    Business flights are in trouble in the world of net zero

    Companies have started to launch ever more inventive ways to cut back on air travel

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    Climate change
    HSBC saga reveals how much climate and financial risk are misunderstood

    The Stuart Kirk spat reveals the profound level of uncertainty that makes global warming unlike any other public policy problem

  • Monday, 23 May, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Best new books on climate and the environment

    Calls to rewild the sea, creative ideas for a clean energy future — and a warning about the human cost of conservation

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Working from home
    The cold call is back and worse than ever

    We all had a break from nuisance calls during the pandemic — so now they seem even more intrusive

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    Executive Pay
    Bonuses are outdated in the age of knowledge work

    Paying people to meet targets is not always effective — and can even backfire

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    Working It podcast16 min listen
    ‘Flight shame’ and the return of business travel

    People still want to hang out together at conferences, but is there a better way to do things?

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Climate change29 min
    'Net zero won't change the way we live'

    'Green growth' not 'degrowth' can make societies carbon free by 2050, says the FT's Martin Sandbu

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Climate Leaders
    New SBTi boss takes over as criticisms mount

    Luiz Amaral becomes chief executive at a challenging time for the standard-setter

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Office life
    It’s OK to be quiet in meetings

    Some of the smartest people rarely speak in work gatherings but everyone listens when they do

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Climate change
    Magical thinking on fossil fuels endangers safety

    Cloak of pretence uses a net zero energy loophole to justify expanding oil, gas and coal projects

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    Office life
    What you should know if you’re fiddling your expenses

    The pandemic has eased the scourge of fraudulent claims

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
    Future of work
    Where have all the older workers gone and will they ever come back?

    Covid brought a 21st century trend of a greying workforce to a standstill and that’s a problem

  • Sunday, 10 April, 2022
    Work & Careers
    Some work jargon is a lot worse than others

    Corporate gibberish is tedious but baffling climate change words are actively harmful

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    Flexible working
    The man who predicted the Great Resignation has more big news

    Quitting rates could stay higher than average for years, says Anthony Klotz

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    Office life
    Battlefield lessons for the modern workplace

    The military has more to offer today’s office workers than you might think

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The best new books on climate change

    From the power of radical positive action to moral responsibility and a child’s perspective — a round-up of the latest works addressing the challenge of our time

  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
    Office life
    The strange death of the salutation

    Firing off an email without an opening greeting is becoming more common but is still unwise

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    Office life
    The worry of what to wear to work is shifting

    In the wake of the pandemic, men now face the tyranny of choice that women have suffered for years

  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    Work & Careers
    The office is fine but the commute is still atrocious

    Luring workers back from their homes is a big ask now that they have tasted life without costly, crowded transport

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