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...Louisa Symington-Mills, founder of WorkLife Central, which offers digital content for working parents, says extended leave is helping to foster an “understanding in workplaces that parenting responsibilities...
...Cornell fellow Cara Eckholm channels Jane Jacobs in this New York Times op-ed, which argues for new zoning laws to reinvigorate the city post Covid. I couldn’t agree more....
...Jacobs previously served as managing director of Mill Road Capital and will replace Stephen Taylor, who was interim chief....
...His most recent work Jacob’s Ladder is based on a passage from Genesis in which Jacob dreams of a ladder that reaches Heaven....
...emma.jacobs@ft.com...
...For Neil Jacobs, Six Senses’ CEO, The Whiteley is a chance to return the area to its former glory. “I grew up nearby and understood how different it is to Mayfair or Knightsbridge,” he says....
...Jacob Tompkins, chief technology officer at the Water Retailer Company, which supplies businesses, says the regulatory system tends to bias water companies towards proposing large, capital-intensive projects...
...Chris Mills, head of customer success at Slack (so presumably someone who wants people to use the platform wisely) reckons that flexible working is also key to a productive future....
...“This is not a dark satanic mill.” We stop at a workspace where they have taken delivery of new bicycle bells. “Yes. Halleluja!” The employee rings it. “That small bell is brilliant!”...
...Our executive producer is Jacob Goldstein. We had additional help from Topher Forhecz. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s global head of audio....
...Opposite is the much showier Casa Loma, completed in 1914 by Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, a sort of Canadian robber baron who brought hydroelectricity to Toronto from his generating station at Niagara Falls....
...(Justin Jacobs) How high could oil prices go? I wrote an FT Big Read about this last week and a column yesterday. More of my thoughts on the matter are there....
...When rubble and scrap is fed into power stations, he says, it wrecks the grinding mills and causes shutdowns....
...The aim is to “buy degraded soil and bring it back to life”, says Richard Jacobs, co-lead manager of Kempen’s sustainable farmland fund....
...After its shipments stopped, several Russian pulp mills had to learn to do without or have started producing the bleaching chemicals themselves....
...He was educated at Burnt Mill Comprehensive School in Harlow and the University of Manchester....
...Joanna Mills London SW14, UK...
...emma.jacobs@ft.com Pilita Clark is away Letter in response to this column: Reopening offices can help combat loneliness / From Joanna Mills, London SW14, UK...
...On show here, “Norwich: River Afternoon” (c1812-19), “Back of the New Mills” (undated) and “New Mills: Men Wading” (1812) all testify to an artist whose professional skill is enhanced by his empathy for...
...For around $900m, Equinor sold its entire acreage in the Bakken to Grayson Mill Energy, a company backed by private equity firm EnCap Investments....
...Katie Jacobs, stakeholder lead at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, says six months into the pandemic, some employees had not had a conversation about their wellbeing with a line manager...
...Louisa Symington-Mills, founder of City Parents, a networking group for working parents, says it is too early to predict post-pandemic working patterns....
...Earnings General Mills is expected to post a dip in first-quarter revenue as the reopening of restaurants has slowed demand for packaged foods....
...The opening event, a light show called About Us, takes place in the old Scottish mill town of Paisley, population 80,000....
...With the swipe of a mobile phone, employees can access a digital version of the kind of mindfulness courses that have been offered at big companies including General Mills and Google....
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