A perspective piece from The Listening Market The story of business in the twenty-first century has, for the most part, been a story of scale. The bigger the operation, the better the margins. The

Something strange has been happening to the way people work. The tools that were supposed to make everyone more productive, the email, the messaging apps, the project management platforms, the calendars that break the

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A perspective piece from The Listening Market The nine-to-five workday has been the default rhythm of modern working life for so long that most people never thought to question it. Wake early, commute, sit

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There used to be a formula for starting a business. Find an office, hire a small team, build a website, print business cards, and hope that the

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There was a time when the word subscription conjured a very specific image: a magazine arriving in the mail, or perhaps a newspaper on the doorstep. Then

A perspective piece from The Listening Market — The global conversation surrounding the four-day work week has undergone a remarkable evolution over the past several years. What once seemed like a fringe ideal debated

A perspective piece from The Listening Market For the better part of two decades, the logic seemed unassailable. Customer service was a cost centre, and cost centres should be made cheaper. Outsourcing was the

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There was a time when growing a business meant growing a team. More customers meant more emails to answer, more orders to fulfil, more spreadsheets to maintain,

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There is something in the air in 2026 that feels different. The conversation around small business has shifted from “start something scalable” to “start something sustainable.” People