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Isabel Berwick

Host and Editor, 'Working It' Podcast and Newsletter

Isabel Berwick is the host of the FT's Working It podcast about the workplace and writes the weekly Working It newsletter. She is the editorial lead for the FT Women in Business Forum, moderates and hosts FT and external events about the workplace and beyond, and is writing a book about how to thrive at work.

Isabel joined the FT in 1999 from the Independent on Sunday, where she was the business editor. She held senior editing roles on FT Weekend and the Opinion desk before becoming Work & Careers editor in 2018, overseeing the FT's management, leadership and workplace content. She left that role early in 2023 to focus full-time on the Working It brand.

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    Two massive shifts are happening at once, leaving businesses struggling to find the right candidates

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    A brilliant and disturbing show exposes the dark side of physical labour, from housework to prostitution

    Painting — using acrylic paint on metal — of a woodsaw  with a yellow handle on a maroon background, with an orange and green frame. Underneath the saw are the words “Allow for short breaks . . . “
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
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    Stay local to find your new workers

    One in 10 Europeans is from a minority background and they form an ambitious talent pool

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    Amazon ends remote work. Will other firms follow?

    CEOs still love the office. Workers still don’t.

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Working It
    Send your rising stars to work elsewhere ⭐️

    Encouraging talented staff to take on non-executive roles is an underused retention tactic

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
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    Working It live: How to get ahead without burning out

    Psychologist Audrey Tang shares strategies for when work overwhelms you

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

    17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

    A stylish restaurant interior with round tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded by wicker-backed chairs. Two black-and-white framed portraits hang on the wall
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: what to read this month

    The business of femtech, taming artificial intelligence, and personal efficiency for the 2020s

    Book covers of ‘The Vagina business’, ‘Hyper-efficient’ and ‘Badass’
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Working It
    How to run a five-generation workforce

    Focusing on what unites us is key to getting past the challenges of having workers aged 18-80

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Working It18 min listen
    Why you should take more risks, with Nate Silver

    Better understanding of probability can help us make better choices

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Working It
    How to get the long-term sick back to work

    A tight labour market means increased pressure on employers to recruit more ‘workless’ people into jobs

    Graphic of a window with a view of a desk and two people sat either side
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Working It21 min listen
    Why you can’t ‘hack’ your way to productivity, with Oliver Burkeman

    The time management expert on what productivity evangelists get wrong

  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Working It13 min
    How to grow the next generation of CEOs | FT Working It

    Is learning and development the secret sauce for corporate survival?

    FT Working It - How to build a CEO
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Working It
    Why you should journal about your work life

    Logging daily highlights can help track the patterns of your activities — and frustrations

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Working It
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    Turnover of department heads has dropped and additional expertise is prized in a complex corporate world

    A woman climbing up stairs
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
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    What managers get wrong about Gen Z

    Chloe Combi spoke to 20,000 young people so you don’t have to

  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Working It
    Who ate my lunch hour?

    WFH staff are powering through lunch, plus the Office Therapy advice column

    A laptop and fork and knife
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Working It18 min listen
    Why working on holiday could make you worse at your job

    Even a little holiday work might make you less productive

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Working It
    How Gen X mentors help Gen Z staff to thrive

    Younger workers expect career support, and your older staff may be the best people to offer it

    A woman stares at her laptop looking bored
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Working It
    Dating apps but for office sharing?

    Like-minded companies can now ‘match’ to share workspaces, plus the Office Therapy advice column

    A laptop with ‘welcome’ on the screen in a lounge space
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
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    Coaching Real Leaders: How can I set the right boundaries in a new job?

    Introducing the Harvard Business Review’s podcast that features real-life coaching sessions

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Working It
    How to deal with uncertainty

    Workplace disruption is here to stay, but there are ways to make the most of challenging times

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
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    An engrossing and timely book, with some fantastically weird anecdotes, about how the wellness movement took root in the 1970s

    A black-and-white photo of a large group of people practising yoga in the sun, all of them in reverse tabletop position, straight arms, bent legs with chests thrust skyward
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Working It20 min listen
    ‘Power hours’: how to make the most of your working day

    Daniel Pink and Aaron Levie on matching time and task

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Slouch — office workers, sit up and take note

    Medical historian Beth Linker provides a timely account of 20th-century America’s obsession with good posture

    Class of school girls doing posture tests with a woman in white coat
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