By: Eliza Filby

Dr Eliza Filby is a historian of generations and author of the Sunday Times bestseller Inheritocracy. She writes a monthly column for City AM and is a sought-after speaker, advising global brands and institutions including Google, McDonald’s and PwC on trends shaping how we live, work and consume.

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Working from home? Your staff are probably relying on ChatGPT

November 28, 2023

Remote workers are secretly using AI - particularly ChatGPT - to gain an edge of their competitors and free up their time during the day. Eventually, we all will be, writes Eliza Filby
Why Gen Z daughters won’t follow in their mums’ career footsteps

October 24, 2023

Are young Gen Z women rejecting the feminism of their mothers?
Gen Z will work hard, but not while stressed millennials stay home

September 26, 2023

Gen Z have been lumped with the blame for empty offices, but it is a generation overburdened with housing worries and childcare concerns who have given up the commute, writes Eliza Filby
Even millennials are becoming victims of ageism as Gen Z take over the office

August 30, 2023

Younger workers are a safety blanket against the future for employers, but it can't come at the expense of valuing an experienced workforce, writes Eliza Filby
From creche to healthcare, companies have renewed a social contract to staff

July 27, 2023

Companies should start considering their responsibility to provide good quality healthcare for their staff, whether that's supporting them with mental health, on-site creches or eldercare, writes Eliza Filby
Want to see how changed the UK is? Look at how City staff treat their nannies

June 27, 2023

City workers are further and further away from the people who help look after their children.
There’s an app about to do to workplaces what social media did to British politics

May 30, 2023

If you haven’t heard of Fishbowl, chances are your colleagues are already using the app - a bizarre combination of LinkedIn and Reddit - to air their workplace grievances, writes Eliza Filby
As the middle classes rush to degree apprenticeships, poorer British kids miss out

May 9, 2023

Degree apprenticeships create a rare species of child - an economically independent 21-year-old, but as middle class parents discover this, they become harder to access for poor British kids, writes Eliza Filby.
I won’t be crying any tears for the end of the office romance and neither should you

February 14, 2023

The office romance is not the Gen Z preference. Should we mourn it? Not really. It only means we're getting better at separating work and personal life, writes Eliza Flby
Women looking out for Gen Z at work are being burnt out by being a ‘Team Mum’

February 6, 2023

Workplace politics has changed over the last few years, but the Team Mum’s are still there and looking out for Generation Z, writes Eliza Filby.

City of London gives green light to controversial Liverpool Street plans

‘Crown jewel’ of Olympic Games memorabilia put up for sale at auction

Bar of the week: Why Three Sheets is a little slice of old Soho

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