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SWITCHING LANES

Start planning your life, not just retirement

Don’t wait till your work life ends to live out your priorities

A growing chunk of ticket sales does not accrue to the people we pay to watch onstage or the companies that put them there.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

The ‘Squid Game economics’ of being a fan

As bots and greed hijack the ticket trade, the law is intervening where the free market has failed

In acting, as elsewhere, the elites are accruing ever more riches, and the rest face uncertain prospects.
Opinion & Features

What nobody clutching their Oscar this weekend will tell you

AI, streaming and media fragmentation are changing the economics of acting

Bikes now make more than twice as many journeys as cars in Paris.
Opinion & Features

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

Despite the typically lower salary, working for a social services agency has its upsides, says the writer.
Opinion & Features

Joining the social services sector no longer the last resort

The case for a job that is more than a pay cheque

Retirement is a phase we have to invest in by preparing well for it. It is not something that just happens because we are getting too old for the economy.
Opinion & Features
SWITCHING LANES

Lessons from ‘pretirement’

Take a sabbatical to stare the reality of retirement in the face – if you can afford one

In an era of longevity and shifting work norms, the question is no longer how to stop working - but how to start living differently.
Opinion & Features
SWITCHING LANES

Retirement isn’t a finale – it’s a strategic pivot

Instead of treating retirement as the end of a long corporate climb, we should view it as a transition into a new, self-directed phase of life

Using up human time on a task that could be done better by a machine may seem inefficient, but it can be worthwhile.
Opinion & Features

The case for workplace inefficiency

Stop optimising. Start pronking

When rooms are in demand, the top of every hour ushers in the same scene: people rising from their desks and walking around with water bottles.
Opinion & Features

The excruciating quest for a meeting room

A tale of territorial ambition, power dynamics and water bottles

A more balanced approach is to invest in human capital while beginning modest supplementary planning.
Opinion & Features
SWITCHING LANES

The best investment in your 20s isn’t your portfolio

Why early retirement advice misses what actually compounds

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