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    Pilita Clark

    Business columnist

    Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the FT where she writes on corporate life and climate change. Formerly the FT’s environment correspondent, her writing has won awards in the US and Asia and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

    Before joining the FT, she was a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

    Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Leadership
      The inescapable tyranny of the bad boss

      Prevalence of toxic management is difficult to measure — but scandals show it is a problem in every sector

      Illustration of a person wearing boxing gloves sitting at a desk and reaching out to punch angry person standing next to the desk saying ‘blah blah blah blah!’
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Environment

      Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles

      Montage of book covers
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Office life
      The fraught politics of the office whipround

      Technology is upending the age-old act of chipping in for a farewell gift

      Illustration of a woman with her hand in the air, cash flying about and a pair of outstretched arms
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Noteworthy new books on climate and the environment

      The latest developments in climate science and humanity’s radical — and not so radical — solutions

      Montage of book covers
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      Employment
      How to hire the best for less

      Workers will accept lower pay at environmentally sustainable firms

    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Management
      Performance reviews are awful yet unstoppable

      As review season nears, new research suggests appraisals may be even worse than we think

      Kenneth Andersson illustration of a manager’s hand touching the top of an employee’s head with a magic wand
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      UK energy
      Why Britain is so bad at heat pumps

      Years of backtracking and bungling has left homeowners and the climate worse off

      A man in a suit pulls a large theatrical curtain across a heat pump that is on stage
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      Are tattoos acceptable at work?

      Colleagues may keep quiet about your tattoos. That doesn’t mean they like them

    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      Office life
      Why expenses are a fraught form of fraud

      The Citi sandwich case shows why some rule-benders get a lot more sympathy than others

      Illustration of someone looking over a chaotic pile receipts as they attempt to do their expenses
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Airlines
      Flying is getting better and also harder

      New technology is easing years of travel tedium just as flight shaming enters a new phase

    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Climate change
      We are in a period of climate stuckness

      The need for faster action is widely accepted, but we’re not making the progress required

      Andy Carter illustration of two people in an hourglass trying to stop the Earth from melting into it
    • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
      Management
      The cult of the gifted amateur lives on

      Some of the most important jobs in Britain are still filled by people with zero experience or interest in the field

      Kenneth Andersson illustration of a man dressed as a graduate asking ‘tea, anyone’, with soldiers and tanks around him
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Flexible working
      The ghastly modern office needs a reboot

      Hybrid working has exposed wasteful, outdated designs that one Silicon Valley boss wants to blow up

      An illustration of empty desks and an office worker trying to enter full to the brim meeting offices
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Advertising
      What Burberry taught me about the marketed mind

      We’ve let the priorities of fashion brands and duty-free shops override those of the hapless passenger

      A red stick man holds a telescope up to view an exit sign amid advertising hoardings
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Climate change
      Climate decision-making is caught in a Catch-22

      It’s ridiculous to allow a handful of countries to block progress on the great dilemma of our age

      An Andy Carter illustration of a judge’s gavel with a map of the world on its surface being held back by a man as three other people try to slam it onto its wooden block
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Heated debate — notable new books on climate and the environment

      Writers tackle themes such as the roles of capitalism and ideology in the future of the planet

    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Parenting and families
      The plight of the hidden carers in your workforce

      Millions of staff secretly juggle busy jobs with demanding caring duties that need more recognition

      Illustration of a person pushing someone in a wheelchair while speaking into a headset and saying ‘Yes, yes, we really need to push this project forward’
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Work-life balance
      Look out when the B-team is left in charge

      Minions get a chance to shine when the boss is away, as long as they don’t muck up

      Kenneth Andersson illustration of four pairs of feet - two on top of office desks and two up in the air leaning on the edge of the desks.
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Working It podcast17 min listen
      Are Fridays dead?

      Have workers introduced a four-day week by stealth?

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      FT business books — what to read this month

      The dawn of a postgenerational society and the science of trust

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Jancis Robinson’s Wine Guide
      How I learnt about wine

      Four FT journalists share their journeys into the world of wine – including via famous neighbours and underage subterfuge

    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Office life
      The hell of other people in the office

      The pandemic eased the scourge of the loud or smelly co-worker but is bringing new woes too

      An illustration of an employee furious about a singing coworker walking behind her desk
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Climate change
      The scourge of climate doomism

      The truth about global warming is bad enough. We don’t need harmful hyperbole

      Andy Carter illustration of a phone with all sorts of climate doom coming out of it - storms, fires and a man standing on its flooded screen, looking around in disbelief
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      Work & Careers
      The perils of impenetrable gibberish

      A Hungarian doctor and Donald Trump show why it’s important to get your message across clearly at work

      A Kenneth Andersson illustration of a woman sitting on a reclining chair while holding an open book and holding her hand to her mouth in surprise as exclamation marks fly off the page
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Climate change
      Climate politics has entered a new phase

      The risks of ignoring the green energy transition have never been so acute

      Andy Carter illustration of a hand covered in oil holding a stopwatch which is counting down to the deadline for the green energy transition
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