Elly Parsons

It’s 1.30am. I’m awake, listening to branches screech against my bedroom window. Then I remember: there are no trees anywhere near my window. W

The UK four-day work week trial that buzzed through workplaces earlier this year finally started this week with over 70 companies taking part. The pilot sc

For as long as I can remember my mum and I have received comments on how similar we look, from the harmless – “Don’t you look alike!” ?

The concept of a formal job interview was born in 1920s America, another of Thomas Edison’s bright sparks. A century later, the process has simultane

Questions about harmful workplace drinking culture in the UK seem old school – recall the big workplace drinking rethink of 2019 whereby lauded bastion o

‘Emotional blind spot’ is one of those nebulous terms that has been popping up in wellness circles and conversations for decades, with Oprah be

Channelling my inner Jane Fonda, I recently decided to partake in some mid-commute step aerobics and walk up an escalator for once – a rare outing f

I don’t know any happy relationship that isn’t odd in its own way. Add a 13-year age gap into the mix and it doesn’t make things more ‘normal&#

Introducing Fancy Another? – a weeklong series of what young women’s drinking culture in the UK looks like in 2022, with zero percent judgement. Th

I was 10. It was my birthday party and I was having a disco in the primary school village hall. Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero” was playing and

I don’t really like weddings. The scope and scale for potential public humiliation just seems too great a risk to me. Yet here I am, in an upturned libra

Throughout 2021 we’ve been collecting and publishing your Salary Stories. Within these inspiring tales – of success, promotion, quitting, moving o

Being told you’re stinky is pretty high up on the list of hurtful personal insults. Being told you look stinky – on social media, for the worl

“It seems in every friendship group I’ve ever been in, I become the butt of the joke,” says Alice*, 28. “Since I can remember, I’ve a

“There’s a name for that!” This is a frequent comment under TikTok videos in which the creator is discussing their all-consuming fear of

You’re semi-supine, on hour three of mindless TikTok scrolling. Doja Cat is there, followed by some actual cats, and suddenly a creator called Mystique A

The pandemic has accelerated engagements and postponed weddings – an all-round bad combination. Couples caught up in this upheaval are still wonderi

I don’t know many twentysomethings living in London who haven’t been on a date, but I’m one of them. I am engaged, though, somehow. (I know, I can’