One thing I’ve been terrible at throughout my career is setting boundaries. That sounds bad. Like I’ve been stealing Post-Its from my colleagues’ desks, or sniffing their bike seats. What I meant to say is that I’m terrible at setting boundaries in terms of how much work I’ll take on or complete. I’ll do everything . I’ll take work home to finish. I’ll come in early to make sure that rooms are set up and stay late just in case they need me to minute an extra agenda item. I’ll

My husband learned years ago that he couldn’t keep secrets from me. It all stemmed from one conversation on the way home from the pub in November 2016. I’m a December baby, and we were talking about what I wanted to do for my birthday. ‘Do you mind if I give you your present in the afternoon of your birthday?’ ‘Oh, are you getting me a rabbit?’ Cue one very awkward silence. (It turned out he’d been planning on taking me to pick out a rabbit to adopt for my birthday. Luckily,

There are two ways of starting your maternity leave. The first is the ordinary way - you make sure someone will be handling your emails and your role while you’re away, spend your last day working in-person at the office, and then your team organises a long lunch, some balloons, and a John Lewis gift card. You sail off into the peach-coloured sunset, full of free sandwiches and store-bought cake, looking forward to meeting your new baby. The second way of starting your matern

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