Stylist • 17th February 2025

Why are so many employers ditching diversity and inclusion policies?

As Google becomes the latest major US corporation to step away from diversity, equity and inclusion, we ask why so many employers are turning against DEI.

Black Ballad • 4th February 2025

Employers Are Ditching DEI: What Does This Mean For Black Women?

In recent years DEI has found itself amidst a flurry of controversy. And thanks to a swarm of critics who’ve bastardised the ethos of fair recruitment practices – diversity, equity and inclusion is becoming increasingly more contentious

Stylist • 18th December 2024

Why do people have such a problem with project managers?

Despite the high stakes, high stress and all of the responsibility that comes with being a project manager, many of them aren’t taken seriously by their colleagues or the workforce at large. Why? And what can we do to change this?

The Frugality • 3rd April 2023

Now, more than ever, we need job adverts to include salaries

Right now it feels like the cost of just about everything is rising, and if price tags and bill statements aren’t enough to remind us, society at large certainly won’t let us forget about it.

HuffPost UK • 27th March 2023

'Bitchiness, Snarky Comments And Eye-Rolling': How Do Workplaces Become Toxic?

Last week Baroness Casey’s review into standards of behaviour and internal culture at the Metropolitan Police was published. The report uncovered damning evidence to back up its brutal conclusion that the force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

HuffPost UK • 1st October 2022

The ‘Black Tax’ Is Bulldozing Our Finances

The risk of financial insecurity is looming over huge swathes of the nation, with around 46 million people reporting that their outgoings increased between March and June this year. The surging prices of fuel, food and energy mean people are spending less on non-essentials.

Stylist • 22nd September 2021

“I’m tired of working my life away”: why women are turning their backs on the 9-5

As recently as a decade ago, our attitude to work was practically the polar opposite. Remember phrases like ‘hustle harder’, ‘rise and grind’ and #TeamNoSleep?

Black Ballad • 18th January 2022

“Wokefishing” Doesn’t Stop At Dating, Employers Are Doing It Too

During the summer of 2020, amid the flurry of news coverage and debates surrounding the pandemic, lockdowns and race relations, both on home soil and internationally, a new term for a rising dating trend was brought to the fore. “What is wokefishing?”

The Frugality • 11th October 2021

I had to abandon my dream of having work-life balance, and here's why

I can’t remember the exact moment I gave up fighting the good fight, but at some point during the last 12 months I finally accepted that I had to let it go. By ‘it’ I’m referring of course to the idea of work-life balance.

Refinery29 • 15th October 2021

It's Not Your Duty, But Here's How Minorities Can Help Workplaces Change

As the average British employee knows, poor judgement from leaders at work reaches far beyond the realms of the fashion and beauty industries, and often dwells outside the boundaries of just race.

Refinery29 • 27th October 2021

Black Introverts On Navigating The UK Workplace

Expanding on this notion during her Ted Talk, The Power of Introverts , Sarah Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking , explains that introversion is “different from being shy.

PHOENIX Magazine • 24th May 2018

The Ugly Truth About Job-Seeking While Pregnant

Job interviews can be daunting and anxiety-inducing at the best of times. If you’re pregnant, they can cause worry, tension and fear so palpable that it can be hard to disguise.

Refinery29 • 12th October 2017

All Work, No Play? Beat Your Work Addiction Before It Beats You

Even though it's been likened to some serious forms of addiction, workaholism is often a glamorised and celebrated part of our culture. People proudly wear the ‘workaholic’ title like a badge of honour without stopping to consider the adverse effects that inevitably come with an unhealthy attachment to work.