Where we’ve come from At Ethos we have been on a journey that we often refer to as an ongoing experiment into the Future of Work. We’ve been travelling for 20 years and practising hard for the last 10. There is no doubt that we have learned a lot. We’ve experienced many bumps in the […]

Ethos recently celebrated 100 editions of our regular newsletter. To mark the occasion we trawled all 100 editions, pulled out our favourite moments and put them together in a timeline that covers the Ethos journey and evolution over the last five years. Click pic below to download pdf with a number of links to explore […]

Often I meet highly competent professionals who are between jobs and “in the perfect world” would start their own business as consultants, passing on their invaluable knowledge. They tell me that they are clear that’s what they want to do but they are reluctant to fully commit as they are the main breadwinner, they have […]

Ethos has launched BuildLondon, a pan-London jobs, brokerage service that connects the construction and infrastructure industry with communities to match job seekers with vacancies, work placements and apprenticeships. This unique and highly scaleable initiative, for which we are hoping to secure social enterprise status, will be the only London-wide, specialist construction industry brokerage. The ambition […]

24th February 2016 saw Ethos formally launch SkillsPlanner, our InnovateUK funded project, at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London. One of the highlights of the evening was Sir Nigel Shadbolt explaining, to an audience including over 100 Industry guests, how Linked Open Data will and can be exploited to drive data platforms like that […]

How to establish a Portfolio Career First published on lorimerconsulting.co.uk   “Going portfolio means exchanging full-time employment for independence. The portfolio is a collection of different bits and pieces of work for different clients. The word “job” now means a client.”  The Portfolio Career, popularised by Charles Handy in his book “The Empty Raincoat”, 1994 […]