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Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse

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Business

How a CEO knows when to quit

The CEO’s alternative summer reading list

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Your conference-survival handbook 

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Why everyone should think like a lawyer

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Are manufacturing jobs really that good?

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How Gen Zs rebel against Asia’s rigid corporate culture

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Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?

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How to write the perfect CV

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The Economist’s agony uncle returns

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How to be a good follower

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For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn

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How not to work on a plane

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Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo? 

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The lessons of woke Scrabble

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Productivity gurus through time: a match-up

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Our column on work and management muses on the mundanity of working life and the plight of managers, as they attempt to understand what makes their workers tick