Ft Listen To Lucy

To allow husbands and wives to co-work has always been a bad idea financially, socially, practically and emotionally, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Work is a bit like taking exercise. It can be boring and stressful while you are doing it but it is preferable to not working, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chilling is seen by today’s children as the natural order of things. However, taking it easy in the office is not a good idea, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A search for the sacrosanct subjects of the workplace was almost fruitless as most of the old strictures at work are on the way out, but there are still some no-go areas, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gordon Brown’s questioning over whether he takes pills to cope with the pressure reveals the new taboo in the workplace, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anna Wintour's longevity in the fashion industry and hard-nosed approach provide a useful model for women executives  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With their ruthlessness and brilliance at managing cash flow, hustlers such as the reformed 50 Cent can provide useful lessons to executives, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bring your dog to work day may uncover some uncomfortable office truths, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In my book, cleanliness is not next to godliness. Necessary up to a point, but quite dull, and not something that deserves a place in management literature.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After decades of discussing women in the boardroom we should have gained enough confidence to go post-PC, argues Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As contemporaries seemed to have stopped playing the obsessive game of age comparison - its time to join them, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With employees paid to stay at home, the relationships between work and leisure, and money and no money are breaking down, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It does one good to fail in a small way. It means one then has to work hard to catch up, and that one may have a fresher way of doing things, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It was a great morale boost that this time I was victim rather than perpetrator, and people have been astoundingly sympathetic, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Kellaway says anti-boss rage is more in vogue than it has ever been in her lifetime. She watches the display with alternate surges of glee and discomfort  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The trick is not for husbands and wives to get to a 50:50 share when doing the housework. It is to stop counting and to stop minding, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The whole idea of advice is hopeless: the best tests in the world would not help, as there is no formula for matching round pegs to round holes, writes Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Work has been overlooked in pop lyrics: there are office novels, office sitcoms and office movies, but almost no office songs, writes Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are many theories about the mess we are in, but it is simply what you get when you take human beings and put them in an organisation, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What has happened to the office desk over the past few hundred years tells of the fall of the craftsman and the rise of Ikea but it also says much about what has happened to the penpusher and office worker, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.