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Evening Standard column

Alain de Botton

Redundancy: Even the most loyal workers become victims of quest to turn a profit

Recessions tend to bring to light two awkward and entirely incompatible facts about offices: that they are about money on the one hand, and friendship and community on the other

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From unfortunate to loser in a meritocratic age

If the successful merit their success, do the unsuccessful deserve their failure, asks Alain de Botton

Does your office need more fools?

Every office thinks it has too many fools but many suffer precisely because they don't have enough

Why do we believe that our job is what makes us worthwhile people?

The oddest thing about the world of office work isn't the long hours we put in or the fancy machines we use to get it done; it's the widespread expectation that office work should make us happy

The office: Commuting

We don't talk or even acknowledge each other's existence, but we share a tight bond with our fellow commuters


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