Amidst all this talk of shared parental leave – low uptake for the men, the fault lying with outdated work cultures and sexist bosses – there’s an important voice missing: the mothers. Maybe 98 per cent of leave is taken by women because that’s what they’d prefer…
Category Archive: Work Life
Work Life
The editor, Annie Ridout, has benefitted from having a business mentor to help her with The Early Hour. Now she’d like to offer a mentorship to another freelance mum, in need of some guidance…
Work Life
Motherhood may impact a woman’s career but it doesn’t have to destroy it. In fact, The Early Hour’s editor, Annie Ridout, found hers blossomed after giving birth. Here, she argues against the idea that babies are a barrier to your career…
Work Life
Alex Blumberg – the Brooklyn-based creator of Startup Podcast – has over 5m listeners tuning into his shows each month. We discuss starting a business, entrepreneurial traits and not being motivated by money…
Work Life
Sarah Davies De Paola’s childhood dream of becoming an energy healer dissipated when she moved to Zurich to live with her husband. She ended up working in finance for a decade but has now quit to embark on a more spiritual career path, alongside running her own business…
Work Life
When Nicola Emmett returned to her marketing role after maternity leave, she found the hours and commute no longer worked for her. She needed flexible work that would fit around childcare so she quit and – after a long, hard search – landed the dream job…
Work Life
“Facebook’s motto used to be ‘move fast and break things'”, says Abadesi Osunsade – former Amazon employee, and the author of Dream Big Hustle Hard: A Millennial Woman’s Guide to Success in Tech. “This captures the sentiments of most tech startups.” Osunsade shares 10 excellent tips…
Work Life
One of the first questions you should ask yourself when setting up a business is: why am I doing this? Annie Ridout revisited her initial reasons for setting up The Early Hour and realised she’d lost her path. So now she’s making a change…
Work Life
“Nora Ephron, the famous screenwriter, once said – ‘When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.’” Writer and editor Anniki Sommerville shares five excellent writing tips to help get you started…
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“I was constipated, on anti-depressants and had several colonoscopies. My skin was almost grey, I had a perpetual low mood and my hair would often fall out.” Juliette Rainer tells Cordelia Fellowes the dark truth about how damaging night shifts can be…