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Pilita Clark

Business Columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the FT where she writes on corporate life and climate change. Formerly the FT’s environment correspondent, her writing has won awards in the US and Asia and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

Before joining the FT, she was a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Email Pilita Clark @pilitaclark  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    National Grid PLC
    National Grid blames old computer systems for sidelining batteries

    Britain’s network operator overlooks batteries up to 30% of the time when they are cheaper, company admits

    Electricity pylons and a wind turbine in Essex
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

    Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The weird truth about work is we actually like it

    Satisfied employees are convinced they are lucky exceptions in a world of toxic bosses and burnout

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of woman sitting at her desk shouting ‘I’m happy!’ while putting one of her legs on her desk, knocking her laptop and coffee off into her colleague, who in turn drops a set of documents from his hand
  • Sunday, 1 September, 2024
    Recruitment
    The allure of the loud know-nothing

    Elephantine salaries for young employees make smart hiring decisions more imperative than ever

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    What managers get wrong about Gen Z

    Chloe Combi spoke to 20,000 young people so you don’t have to

  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Managing yourself
    The science of saying no at work

    Researchers who put themselves under the microscope made some important discoveries

    Illustration of a person sitting at a desk with an open laptop surrounded by signs saying ‘No’
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Climate change
    The new wave of climate claptrap

    From Musk to Project 2025, the twaddle keeps on coming

    Andy Carter illustration of a man covering a scorched and dry Earth with a sheet showing a lush green Earth.
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Work-life balance
    The most annoying thing about young people at work

    They are very often right, especially when it comes to working hours

    An illustration of a young person, feet on desk and holding a smart phone while an older man and woman holding note pads and pens look on.
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    From the power of renewables to the wisdom of animals — new books on the environment

    The latest climate writing offers important messages on ways to wean the world off fossil fuels and protect its wildernesses

  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Why I no longer crave a Tesla

    Elon Musk’s antics are turning off the most obvious customers for his cars

    Illustration of a person seen in profile and a downward zigzagging market graph line coming out of their mouth with the words Blah Blah Blah at each graph point
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Beware the march of the childless voter

    JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality

    A person stands on the winner’s podium with two other people in runners up positions who have children in tow
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Climate change
    Here come the new climate leaders

    A mega election year is ushering in a different breed of net zero lawmakers

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Atlas holding a burning earth, drawn on a background of a starry sky
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Work & Careers
    How we stopped caring about corporate twaddle

    Empty, deceptive jargon is so pervasive we no longer notice it

    Kenneth Andersson illustration of a female figure shouting jargon.
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Work-life balance
    Sun, sea and sickness: why we get ill on holiday

    Those of us who fall ill as soon as we stop work may need to rethink our approach to life

    Illustration of a person lying in a bed under a beach umbrella on the beach with an ice pack on their forehead and thermometer in their mouth while everyone else has fun in the sea
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    UK energy
    The risky holes in Keir Starmer’s green plan

    Big questions surround the new government’s admirable but detail-light goals

  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Office life
    The new normal of office life

    As working from home persists, companies are rethinking the role of office space

    Illustration of a person holding a pile of gifs and sayin ‘welcome’ to a line of people holding briefcases and wearing office attire
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    Work & Careers
    The productivity hack that really does boost careers

    Physical stamina is an oddly overlooked superpower in modern working life

    A worker wearing a crown works happily in the spotlight while others in the office are asleep at their desk or look flustered
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast27 min listen
    Does pay transparency work? With Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark

    New research finds more transparency doesn’t always mean more pay

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Why tackling accent bias matters at work

    Wall Street banks and big City law firms among employers addressing potential discrimination

    A diverse group of people saying ‘Hi’ to each other in different accents
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Climate’s impact on sports and a call to arms — a round-up of environment books

    New titles include billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer on a way of life we can all pursue and a meditative take on nature’s resilience

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Future of work
    The fading allure of the foreign posting

    Some companies have found that the impact of the pandemic has intensified a reluctance to move abroad for work

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Climate change
    Employers face a rising climate conundrum

    Younger workers in unexpected places are pressing their firms to take serious action on emissions

    Illustration of a person sat at a desk with a laptop and a cloud over their head. They are crying, with their tears dropping into a mug
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Rishi Sunak’s big net zero UK election gamble

    If rowing back on climate action changes the political weather for the Tories, the consequences will be far-reaching

    Andy Carter illustration of a woman looking up at 2 voting booths, one with a tree growing out and another with smoggy air spewing out, to show the effects on the environment of voting one way or the other.
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Office life
    The humble email sign-off is not what it used to be

    The rise of the permanent out-of-office is a sign of the dire state of work email

    Illustration of a women sitting at her computer looking bored with her head tilted back as the words Blah blah blah blah blah blah flow out of the screen over her
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