Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In

Ingrid Biese is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She is also an entrepreneur and the founder of The Art Place Finland, a space and platform for bringing research findings back into the organizational world, where she works with individuals and organizations around issues of sustainable working cultures, practices, and solutions for work. Her main area of research is the phenomenon known as ‘opting out’. Biese sees opting out as a contemporary societal phenomenon and her research includes both men and women who opt out of successful careers to adopt new lifestyles where they can live and work on their own terms. Other areas of interest are globalization, individualization, gender, and identity. Biese regularly engages in public debates on sustainable careers and lifestyles.