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Not being able to switch off is becoming seen for what it is — a sign of poor time management, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rich Lesser risks widening the gap between expectations and reality for twentysomethings, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Despite the Yahoo chief’s ire, we will go on being interested until there are more women at the top.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Now it is unacceptable to boast about spending, company bosses are turning to the summer reading list  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To appear exasperated but poised is as good as it gets, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Your departure offers a rare chance to voice what you like while everyone is listening, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 10 minutes I debated high heels on the radio were the sanest I have had since the referendum, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I did not set out to be uncivil to my colleagues. This is just how office life has become, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A hat trick of honesty, ignorance and blame: it is plain, simple — and insidious, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Clever technology is bad for our brains, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A champion tweeter and receiver of thousands of likes may be the opposite of prolific, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HR departments will soon laugh at the fuss they made over keeping spoilt millennials happy, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Not all rejections are equal and those followed by successes stop mattering at once, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There is not a single example of a business putting its values to music without mass humiliation, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The longer I suffer the commute, the more likely I will stop asking if it is mad to cycle, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Typing and using the mouse are so hard that I’ve had to pick a task and stick to it, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Graduates are up against the widest gap between expectation and reality ever seen in the professions  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hillary Clinton’s summary teaches two lessons in how not to do it: no jokes and stick to the point, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Predictability is boring and unglamorous in a world that reveres creativity and disruption, says Lucy Kellaway  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A company wanting to show it values women at work uses images where they are not always gorgeous, says Lucy Kellaway.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.