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Sarah O'Connor
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FT columnist, reporter & associate editor, writing about work, technology & economics. Opinions mine, not the FT's ft.com/sarah-o-connor
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    May 15
    Are you tired of the utopian/dystopian AI predictions from CEOs? Do you want to hear what's ACTUALLY happening, from the people it's actually happening TO? If so, I have good news: I felt the same, so I have worn out my shoe-leather & written this book! penguin.co.uk/books/462159...
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Sep 23, 2022
    What do Financial Times readers think of the mini-budget? This is the most-recommended comment on our news story:
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Jun 21, 2022
    Really not a fan of all this morally loaded "workers must show pay restraint" rhetoric. It's entirely rational for people facing 10% inflation to try to get a pay rise. Tell them no if you want, but don't tell them they were wrong to even ask.
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Jul 1, 2015
    A robot has killed a worker in a VW plant in Germany
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Mar 14, 2021
    I’m a rule-follower by nature. Last night I stayed at home and lit a candle. Today I’m so angry I want to burn something to the ground. I can’t be the only one.
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Oct 18, 2021
    My husband and I cancelled our Christmas plans to be with family and stayed home alone with our baby. Didn’t use childcare exemption because we didn’t need childcare (we weren’t working). Now I just feel like we were suckers for following the rules.
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Farewell to the servant economy. Unprofitable “on-demand” services like someone bringing a coke to your door gave people a sense of affluence in a decade of stagnant wage growth. But they were subsidised by investors, and now the money is drying up. ft.com/content/8fcb52…
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Nov 23, 2020
    Shouldn't AstraZeneca be getting more credit for this? ft.com/content/2da97a…
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Mar 24, 2022
    So the chief exec of P&O, has openly said he knowingly broke the law, and that he would do the same thing again if he could go back in time. Surely this is grounds to disqualify him as a company director under the "fit and proper person" test?
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Jul 6, 2020
    2017, C4: "Leicester sweatshops exposed" 2018, FT: "Exploitation in UK garment industry" 2019, BBC: "Leicester...fast fashion sweatshops" Jan 2020, Guardian: "Alarm over UK fast fashion factories" Jun 2020, Hancock: "Clearly some problems have been under the radar in Leicester"
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Sep 21, 2022
    Liz Truss is willing to do unpopular things. What would your best unpopular policy be? Mine: build loads and loads of social housing and genuinely affordable housing on the green belt.
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Sep 13, 2022
    This idea that people not going "above and beyond" at work are "quiet quitters" is wild. If your staff turn up every day and do exactly what you ask of them, they aren’t “quiet quitting”, they’re...working. ft.com/content/a09a2a…
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Sep 27, 2022
    “When does your mortgage fix end?” is the new “what boxset are you watching?” smalltalk for the late-30s/early-40s crowd
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    Sarah O'Connor
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    Nov 24, 2020
    I see @MattHancock has noticed Brits are "peculiarly unusual" in going to work when sick. We're also "peculiarly unusual" in having the lowest sick pay in the OECD. Coincidence? It's hard to watch govt blaming people for working when sick, rather than fixing the reasons for it.