work
Back in 2007, Tim Ferriss wrote The 4-Hour Work Week (Ebury, £12.99) and altered the way a generation thought about working. He galvanised us with the promise that we could, ‘escape the 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich’. Many people dreamed of an illusive ‘laptop lifestyle’ where they could run their business from the comfort of a sun lounger in Bali. The key to this was all about outsourcing; getting other people in less developed, yet highly educated countries, such as India and the Philippines, to do the work that you either didn’t want to do or couldn’t do. Sounds perfect, right? Well, in theory