Sarah O'Connor

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Tuesday, 10 December, 2024

Global Economy
Economists need to get their story straight on immigration
Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow
Tuesday, 3 December, 2024

Technology
We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now
Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past
Tuesday, 26 November, 2024

Employment
Why the public doesn’t buy the idea of a ‘green jobs’ bonanza
People understand that transitions are hard — politicians need to as well
Tuesday, 19 November, 2024

UK employment
Let’s get real about what Labour reforms mean for employers
Big policy interventions are always a leap in the dark
Tuesday, 12 November, 2024

Driverless vehicles
The very human problem with not-quite-self-driving cars
The better an automated system performs, the more complacent — and dangerous — we become
Thursday, 20 June, 2024

Zero-hours contracts
Zero-hours contracts — an obituary
These arrangements remain a blight on Britain’s labour market
Monday, 9 October, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
Israel responds to historic Hamas attack
The death toll from Hamas’s unprecedented multi-front assault on Israel passed 600 on Sunday
Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

Employment
Net zero was never going to be an easy win for workers
The green transition will be hard and involve trade-offs policymakers would rather not talk about
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023

UK employment
Why don’t people leave bad jobs?
Giving workers a bit more security might make the labour market more flexible, not less
Tuesday, 12 September, 2023

Employment
Experiments are key for more grown-up industrial relations
In the UK, the Labour party’s commitment to sectoral collective bargaining could bring positive changes
Tuesday, 22 August, 2023

Minimum-Living wage
The minimum wage has passed the high inflation test
It reduces pay inequality while employment doesn’t suffer — even if productivity is not boosted
Tuesday, 15 August, 2023

Office life
Beware of performative policymaking
There’s a lesson for politicians in the fate of laws introduced around the world establishing a ‘right to disconnect’
Tuesday, 8 August, 2023

UK labour productivity
In praise of the ‘techies’ who make companies more productive
As it stands on the verge of the next industrial revolution, Britain needs people who can put new technology to good use
Tuesday, 25 July, 2023

UK Inequality
Globalisation is not to blame for Britain’s insecurity problem
The country’s precarious low-wage jobs and shortage of affordable housing are hardly the fault of international forces
Tuesday, 18 July, 2023

Social affairs
Some people need to be nudged into saving
Successful trials in the UK are a useful reminder of the protective power of the ‘rainy day fund’
Tuesday, 11 July, 2023

Health
It’s time to relearn the lost art of leisure
We should prioritise rest now, rather than waiting for an automated future that may never arrive
Monday, 3 July, 2023

Global Economy
There is more to life and death than GDP
Economic growth isn’t the only way to compare how well countries are doing
Tuesday, 27 June, 2023

UK mortgage rates
Why higher rates risk reigniting intergenerational conflict
A cohort of people in their mid-30s have probably been pummelled twice by monetary policy over the past decade
Tuesday, 20 June, 2023

UK politics
Politicians must send the right signals on ‘green’ jobs
Without clear incentives from government, demand for employment in the decarbonisation effort will continue to lag behind
Sunday, 18 June, 2023

FT SeriesAI in the workplace
AI shakes up way we work in three key industries
Professional services, filmmaking and coding are among the first to use the technology in everyday operations
Tuesday, 13 June, 2023

Employment
Why ‘harvested by hand’ labels bother me
Supermarket claims about the use of human labour rather than machines give us too little information
Tuesday, 6 June, 2023

Working from home
How the digital nomad went corporate
The romanticism of work on the move has collided with the realities of tax and immigration
Thursday, 1 June, 2023

Economists Exchange
Andrew Scott: ‘We have to invest much more in our future selves’
We’ve never expected people to be living into their 10th decade, so we’ve never planned for it. Now that must change
Tuesday, 30 May, 2023

Work & Careers
Don’t bet against the ‘suitcase principle’ of white-collar work
Humans have a remarkable ability to create jobs for themselves — whatever the progress of technology
Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Artificial intelligence
Let’s not write people off as ‘AI losers’
The idea that the outcome of technological change is inevitable is both dangerous and untrue