Your Business: Dare to Doo

Vanessa Tierney noticed that the world of work was changing rapidly. So she set up a digital platform – Abodoo.com – to suit the needs of employers and smart workers who want to change jobs

Vanessa Tierney, founder, Abodoo.com maura Hickey

Halfway through a conversation with Vanessa Tierney, the postie calls. Postman Maurice often walks around to the back of Tierney’s house in Wexford, she explains, handing in work-related packages through the window. “You might feature in my interview, Maurice,” Tierney laughs. It’s a small vignette to the smart working revolution, one that Tierney and her husband Ben Wainwright are driving relentlessly, and globally, from their home on the outskirts of Gorey.

Their brainchild, ...