Imagine your life without access to a bank account. Imagine having your life savings stashed under your mattress or your kitchen sink, hidden from potential thieves. Imagine having no pension or financial security. Now imagine the lives of around two billion people worldwide, for whom a life without access to financial freedom is very real.
"Keep going, never look back and set your own goals"– nine theses about success and failure from Helsinki-based Man in Van’s Jon Catani and Olli Martinheimo.
Does an office always have desks? What about four walls? Or, could an office be something completely different? We visit four very different workspaces to find out what the word ‘office’ means for an office worker, a freelance stylist who owns a vintage shop, a moving bicycle mechanic and a startup entrepreneur.
What does it take to succeed in an industry that is as fast-paced and mobile as its product? We texted ‘Hi’ to Petri Lahtinen, the CEO of Moi Mobile and this is what happened.
Reading list: A four-book toolkit for the future
As our global food resources are put to the test, we stand in front of the big question: How far can we stretch the concept of edible food?
The ideal employee of the future is measured in learning rather than billable hours, says Maria Ritola, Co-founder of research assistant Iris.ai. While tech drives the ways we work at an ever-growing pace, human intelligence is crystallised around empathy, an ability to interact with peers and draw conclusions on machine-generated information — a human privilege.
We spent half an hour with Leena Niemistö, a C-suite powerhouse, medical doctor and expert shapeshifter; she taught us that failing can be learned bit by bit and that bravery is key.
Managers on hoverboards, sharing a cubicle with a robot and having Soylent for lunch? What will our workplaces, colleagues and work lunches look and be like in ten, fifteen or twenty years? We map out the latest developments in the future of work.