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As the holidays approach, the number of Christmas trees being sold along sidewalks and in parking lots is rapidly increasing, and U-cut farms all over have opened for business.A passion for creating holiday memories is what drives many…
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Once at a hotel, I spied a group of women in sparkly outfits out on their Christmas jolly. They ran to the dance floor, jumped up and down, and shouted, “fun, fun, fun”. Not just once, but for the duration of that banging tune and…
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This article is part of a guide to Tokyo from FT GlobetrotterFor the final part of our photography series highlighting the unfolding of autumn across FT Globetrotter cities, we commissioned photographer Sybilla Patrizia to capture the…
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It has been billed as the biggest overhaul of the working week since the carmaker Henry Ford introduced the five day week in his factories almost a century ago. A number of UK companies have signed up to trial a four-day week, with no loss…
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A record number of companies are setting up employee-ownership trusts as founders look for alternative ways to reward staff and sell their stakes while also benefiting from a tax break. Nearly 500 employee ownership trusts were set…
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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 WednesdayThis week on the Working It podcast we have a special mini-series, Four days’ work for five days’…
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When Ashley Watkins was a corporate recruiter for a bank and about to buy a house in 2006, she received upsetting news: She was getting laid off from her job. It was about two weeks before Christmas, she said. “At first, I was numb. I was…
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If you have ever felt like a full day of back-to-back meetings was draining your life force, you’re not alone.Many of us dread a packed work calendar. Wasting too much time in meetings is a distraction preventing 67% of professionals from…
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A host of UK companies have been taking part in a six-month trial aimed at overhauling the traditional five-day working week. They’ve structured their businesses to work on a four-day week instead, with no loss in pay for employees. In the…
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More than $400bn in market value has been wiped from European tech companies since the peak of the 2021 boom, as venture capital dealmaking hit a wall at the end of the summer. The continent’s start-ups were beneficiaries of a…
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