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Employers around the world plan to step up their spending on executive development programmes this year with a focus on leadership, diversity and digital transformation, according to the FT’s second annual chief learning officer…
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Some effects of Netflix’s recent subscriber decline emerged on Tuesday, as the company laid off 150 of its US-based workers. The move came just a week after Netflix updated its corporate culture memo.“Not everyone will like—or agree…
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This article is an onsite version of our Disrupted Times newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox three times a weekGood evening,The cost of living crisis is pounding the British economy. Official…
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Among the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, historians will list an important technological shift. Just as the growth of the factory changed where and how people lived, the rise of remote working is an enormous shock. It will affect…
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This article is an on-site version of our Working It newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every WednesdayI hear a lot about senior managers’ resistance to internal corporate change and diversity…
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The governing body of football in the US has reached landmark collective bargaining agreements with its national men’s and women’s teams ensuring equal pay on both sides.The US Soccer Federation said on Wednesday that it had agreed…
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Timothy Devinney recalls his horror when he was shown a sprawling spreadsheet of the “key performance indicators” for the university department where he once worked. It included 110 targets, each with staff assigned to monitor them.“There…
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This week’s problemI am a trailing spouse and struggling to get back into full-time work. Professionally, my husband and I started as equals. However, we moved and I took a break to manage the family. I then started part-time…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided bloody vindication for the best-known sayings of Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke and American boxer Mike Tyson. Respectively: “No plan survives first contact with the enemy” and…
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This week on Working It, we’ve joined forces with Claer Barrett, host of Money Clinic. Back in November, Money Clinic aired one of its most popular episodes: “How to ask for a pay rise – and get one!” Working It host Isabel Berwick was an…
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