How Valmista Helps Build a More Flexible, Trust-Based Employment Ecosystem
Employment is often discussed as a binary choice:
You either have a job — or you don’t.
But reality looks very different.
Across Europe and globally, work is becoming:
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More project-based
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More service-oriented
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More local and on-demand
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More hybrid between employment, entrepreneurship, and freelancing
The challenge is not a lack of work.
The challenge is that our employment systems were designed for a different era.
From Jobs to Work — A System Shift
According to the OECD and the European Commission, a growing share of work is already performed outside traditional full-time employment. Platform work, self-employment, and micro-entrepreneurship are no longer edge cases — they are structural parts of modern labor markets.
Yet many systems still assume:
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Fixed roles instead of tasks
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Long contracts instead of short engagements
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Centralized employers instead of distributed service providers
This creates friction:
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Skilled people struggle to find opportunities that fit their availability
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Small businesses and households struggle to find trusted help
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Work exists, but doesn’t flow efficiently to where it’s needed
Employment as an Ecosystem, Not a Contract
At Valmista, we see employment as a system, not a single contract type.
A healthy employment ecosystem needs:
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Low friction access to work opportunities
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Trust and transparency between parties
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Flexibility without losing reliability
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Fair value exchange for both customers and service providers
This aligns closely with the European Union’s goals around inclusive labor markets, digitalization, and local service economies — where technology enables participation rather than replacing people.
What Platforms Should Actually Do
Digital platforms often focus only on scale.
But scale without structure creates instability.
A well-designed employment platform should:
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Make work visible and accessible
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Reduce administrative burden
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Support people transitioning between employment, freelancing, and entrepreneurship
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Strengthen local economies instead of extracting value from them
Valmista is built around this idea:
Technology should enable work, not dictate it.
From Unemployment to Participation
Public research consistently shows that activation matters more than classification.
People don’t need to be labeled as unemployed, employed, or entrepreneurs — they need paths to participate.
Valmista supports:
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Students earning alongside studies
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Professionals monetizing skills flexibly
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Retirees staying active if they choose
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Small service providers finding customers without heavy overhead
This reflects recommendations from institutions like the ILO (International Labour Organization), which emphasize adaptability, skills utilization, and inclusive access to work.
Brand Promise: Make Work Flow
Valmista’s role is simple — but powerful:
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Connect real needs with real skills
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Reduce friction, increase trust
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Let people decide how, when, and how much they work
We don’t replace employment.
We expand it.
We don’t redefine work.
We make it accessible.
Looking Forward
As societies rethink employment models, the focus should move from:
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Protecting outdated structures
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Building resilient, human-centered systems
Platforms like Valmista are not the future of work on their own —
they are infrastructure for a more flexible, inclusive, and local employment ecosystem.
And that ecosystem starts with one simple idea:
