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Listen to Lucy

Summary: Lucy Kellaway, the FT's management columnist, pokes fun at management fads and jargon, and celebrates the ups and downs of office life. You can find more of Lucy Kellaway's columns from the Financial Times on our website and listen to more episodes of Listen to Lucy on iTunes, Stitcher, Audioboom or Soundcloud.

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 Elevator gossip rarely rises above the dull | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:28

Lucy Kellaway says the average office worker never relaxes in the lift

 Worker bees should be left to bumble | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

All this stuff about employee engagement is nonsense says Lucy Kellaway

 When every day is April Fools' Day | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:24

How do you spot an April Fools' Day joke from the real thing?

 I’m still puzzling over my dream job | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

Lucy Kellaway says that a survey showing that teenagers in Britain want to pursue the ‘wrong’ careers was pointless

 Facebook’s offices are too cool for women | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:19

In insisting on a chilly conference room, Mark Zuckerberg is exhibiting dotcom dogmatism, says Lucy Kellaway

 Worrying over your worth has no value | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:14

No one complains about earning too much, says Lucy Kellaway

 Office propositions are no clear-cut issue | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:19

Now is the time to break my silence and tell my story of being sexually harassed at work, says Lucy Kellaway

 I can’t stop my cyber loafing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:28

Lucy Kellaway says we need the equivalent of the stocks to persuade people to get off the net and get on with their work

 Finally I’ve found some good corporate guff | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:33

J&J’s ‘Our Credo’ got me excited. Alas, since it was written in 1943 there has been some slippage

 End of the line for the landline | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:22

The death of the old-style phone may help us individually but it loosens the bonds between us, says Lucy Kellaway

 Wanted: a user’s guide to every boss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:06

If everybody knows what their manager’s little ways are, it is better all round, says Lucy Kellaway

 If I outsourced my work, would you care? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:03

The only risk is that the boss gets wind of the arrangement and cuts out the middleman

 Take a stand on being more productive | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:09

Last week I read a blog saying that sitting is the new smoking. It makes you fat and then it kills you. We must act, says Lucy Kellaway

 Bosses fail the 10-year-old test | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:02

Lucy Kellaway says that a CEO ought to be able to explain what he does in a way a child can grasp

 The first word in mangled meanings | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:50

Bosses have been rampant in the world of bull, says the FT's Lucy Kellaway

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