Back in early 2020, a friend, exasperated by the daily commute, told me that she thought she could do her job effectively from home; two, or even three, days a week. I scoffed at the suggestion — not because I doubted her ability to be productive outside the office —…

In 2018 — long before his legal issues with Twitter — responding to a Wall Street journal article describing Tesla’s long working hours culture, Elon Musk tweeted: “There are easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on a 40-hour week.” When probed about his own working practices…

I think we can all agree that the gender pay gap is a bad thing. There are myriad cultural and policy reasons (many of them complex) as to why women earn roughly 80 cent on each euro a man earns, both when comparing similar work and more generally. A recent…

“Millennials, eh?!” It was just a simple, yet indelible comment by a colleague. She was referring to an interaction with another colleague earlier that day. The nature of the incident I can’t recall — it was not important — but what struck me was how easily the incident was explained…

I have always found the experience of resigning from a job excruciating. So much that on one occasion, when resigning from a teenage summer job as a shop assistant, I brought my Dad with me. I broached the discussion with my boss near the discount overripe banana stand — which…