Pasona Office Farm

Richard
Workplace

Nine years ago, the Japanese IT recruitment firm, Pasona Group decided to grow a rice paddy field in the basement of an office tower in Tokyo’s financial district. Now, they are being hailed in Japan as pioneers for a new kind of urban farming. Read More

The Worst Jobs In History

Richard
Workplace

Next time you are having a bad day in the office spare a thought for the poor folk that have endured the worst jobs in history. Covering an array of professions from Viking Egg-Collector to Spit Boy “The Worst Jobs in the World Matrix” is a neat little diagram produced by Lapham’s Quarterly displaying an eclectic mix of truly awful jobs over the last 2000 years… Read More