Isabel Berwick

London

Editor at Financial Times

Host of the @FT #WorkingIt podcast and I write the weekly Working It newsletter. My book, The Future-Proof Career, is out now - link below 📚

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How to get yourself ‘unstuck’ at work

1 week ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Hello and welcome to Working It. I was honoured to write an FT obituary last week for Jane Gardam, the English novelist, who was one of...
Jane Gardam, novelist, 1928-2025

1 week ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Many American readers first came to Jane Gardam’s fiction through her 2004 novel Old Filth, which sold well on both sides of the Atlantic.
Gritar a los empleados es malo para la empresa

1 week ago | expansion.com | Isabel Berwick
It’s time to ditch your mind-numbing, pointless career

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Isabel Berwick

Isabel BerwickMay 1, 2025 – 9.54am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Is it time for us to redefine what we mean by career success? Rutger Bregman thinks so, and his new book, Moral Ambition, makes a brisk and persuasive case for ditching “mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs” and doing something more meaningful instead.
Ask me anything? The rise of the robo-coach

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Hello and welcome to Working It. This week I’ve been enjoying conversations with our readers, both in the FT.com comments section and on...
Lashing out at staff is bad for business

2 weeks ago | financialpost.com | Isabel Berwick

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Moral Ambition — Rutger Bregman on a different kind of success for smart workers

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Is it time for us to redefine what we mean by career success?
Have you got a shouty, negative boss? You’re not the only one

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Isabel Berwick

What baffles me most about workplaces in 2025 (in a competitive field) is the enduring prevalence of shouty, negative and underling-blaming leadership styles. Tricky bosses have always been with us, although I’d imagined they would start to moderate their behaviour once workers could call them out online. Apparently not. TikToker Ben Askins, who has 850,000 followers, is killing it with appalling bad boss stories sourced from his viewers. It makes for jaw-dropping content.
Lashing out at staff is bad for business

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Isabel Berwick is the FT’s Working It editor and author of ‘The Future-Proof Career’ What baffles me most about workplaces in 2025 (in a...
Happy managers = happy staff

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Isabel Berwick

Hello and welcome to Working It. I’ve just finished Rutger Bregman’s new book, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making...

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