employment
False economy
Britain is losing the race to recovery
Letters
The future of offices Sir: I agree with much of Gerard Lyons’s article about the future of the capital (‘London…
Boomer and bust
Covid-19 is fast-forwarding us into retirement
Office romance
Why would anyone want to work from home?
Now you’re talking
This week’s Wiki Man may read a bit oddly. You see, I haven’t ‘written’ it at all; I’ve dictated it…
Network failures
You can’t discuss racial inequality without using the N-word. And you can’t debate social justice without adding the C-word and…
Letters
Back to schools Sir: I share Lucy Kellaway’s enthusiasm for seeing school-life return and inequality gaps closed (‘A class apart’,…
Out of office
Covid-19 may have changed the way we work for ever
Garden leave
It’s hell when the whole neighbourhood is working from home
When actions speak louder than words
For all the abuse heaped on the Behavioural Insights Team early in the crisis, let’s not forget that the only…
Have you caught the remote-working bug?
One of the few benefits to emerge from this pandemic is that the world’s population has been given a crash…
Furlough
In July, in its ‘Guess the definition’ slot, next to the day’s birthdays, the Daily Mail asked its readers to…
Coronomics
The crash is surreal – and ordinary remedies won’t be enough
Barometer
Time out When did British workers start being ‘furloughed’? The word furlough is first recorded in the English language in…
The post-Brexit bounce seems to have stuck, for now
The post-election economic bounce appears to be more than a fluke. Positive news came in waves this week, as data…
Despite Brexit
After the vote for Brexit, it was often said that our departure from the EU was most likely to harm…
Inhuman resources
When did job-hunting become such an ordeal?
The people’s decade: how will history come to define the 2010s?
The 1960s were swinging. The 1970s were stagflationary. In the 1980s we made loadsamoney and greed was good. The 1990s…
Britain’s jobs miracle proves there is no reason to fear technology
Another week, another set of economic figures that suggest the country is showing remarkable resilience while politics implodes. Rather than…
Is the future of work flexible?
Today we suffer disillusion, not because we are poorer than we were — on the contrary, even today we enjoy,…
We all have servants now
Montego Bay, Jamaica When the Kennedy clan were children, JFK and his siblings would tear off their clothes before leaping…
Sending more people to uni isn’t the answer
Imagine a world where employers judged applicants solely on their dress. Anyone in frayed clothes or scuffed shoes would never…
A simple way for Spectator readers to make a real difference
Perhaps the most insightful piece of political analysis since the turn of the century came from the Queen in a…
Real life
My adventures in penury land me with two job applications on my screen, one for MI6, one for Sainsbury’s. Do…
Why I now believe in positive discrimination
The Prime Minister no doubt knew he would be fanning the flames when he waded into the argument about the…
