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New ideas about how we are working
1. Reverse mentoring: Mentoring used to mean older colleagues guiding younger workers up the career ladder. But the earliest adopters of new technologies are often young people, and so big names like Microsoft, Roche
and Atkins have embraced reverse mentoring; harnessing young people to close knowledge gaps within organisations.
2. FIRE movement (financial independence, retire early): The idea is to live as cheaply as possible in their 20s and 30s, squirrelling enough money away to retire by middle age. These extreme savers are working longer hours to save up overtime payments while also spending less leisure time out of home to avoid costly activities. Maybe have a certain level of job and no kids either.
3. Flygskam: Domestic air travel has dipped in Sweden as climate-conscious travellers opt for the train. If "flight shame" becomes the norm, it could have significant consequences for business travel.
4. Leaveism: Another way workers are responding to feeling overloaded: Take time off to get through the tasks you can't complete in the office. (Via BBC)
Miracle tech mask
This is the Incognito mask, which is designed to disrupt facial recognition software so the technology cannot pin down a firm identity.
