Pilita Clark

Pilita Clark

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. 

Unlimited vacation policies: “It is hard to think of another work perk that promises so much and delivers so little – to workers.”
Why unlimited holidays mean more time in the office

More employers are offering bottomless holidays – but who really benefits?

Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias and Bloomberg CEO Michael Bloomberg at the launch of Bloomberg’s new European headquarters in London. Photograph: Getty Images
Pilita Clark: going green is easier when you have deep pockets

Good to see what a billionaire and a starchitect can achieve in Bloomberg’s new office

People often soldier on because they work for leaner, more stressed, companies where the pressure to do more with less is constant
If you’re sick, don’t go to work. Get into bed and get better

Pilita Clark: Many people go to work when ill because they fear they will be targeted in the next round of redundancies

The idiotic mistakes we make at work are awful and getting worse. Photograph: Getty Images
The best way to recover from a technological bungle

If you do send an idiotic email at work, just apologise and move on – never try to recall it

Company victims of a DDoS attack think a competitor was more likely to have been the perpetrator than a standard cyber criminal. Photograph: Getty Images
Are Irish businesses targeting each other with cyber crime?

From florists to poker sites, when your site goes down it might not be a random hacker

PowerPoint presentations are typically a festival of unfathomable graphs and bullet points, often read out verbatim.
The real problem with PowerPoint? It’s us, stupid

Problems stem from users who mistake complexity for expertise

Self-deprecation is “a disarmingly effective tool” in the workplace.
Want to appear confident? Poke fun at yourself

People who breezily crack jokes at their own expense ooze self-confidence

Study after study suggest open-plan offices make employees more miserable, more ill, less friendly and less productive but they’re much cheaper and so they’re here to stay.
How to negotiate the noise and intrusions of an open-plan office

With private offices all but history, we must hide behind plants and filing cabinets

The best mentors can be the worst employees. Photograph: iStock
My best mentors: blunt, gossipy and always right

I’ve had some sensational mentors, it’s just that neither they nor I knew it

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri comments on the panel’s climate report in Stockholm last Friday. Photograph: Reuters/Jessica Gow
Climate scientists spell out challenge UN faces in 2015 Paris conference
  • Europe
  • September 30, 2013, 01:00

Paris to host biggest UN talks on curbing emissions since 2009 Copenhagen meeting

Lower cotton prices and markdowns meant Primark’s operating profit margin in the first half was higher than a year earlier. Photograph: Lewis Stickley/PA Wire
Primark sales surge continues

Annual sales are expected to be 22% ahead of last year

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