From Etsy stores to YouTube channels, a generation of young people are starting up their own 'side hustle’ outside of the regular nine-to-five. What’s driving these predominantly Gen Y workers to trade their free time for toil, and what does this reveal of their changing values and lifestyles?

With over 800 million monthly users, WeChat is an app ubiquitous across China. From ordering a taxi to booking a hotel, it’s morphed into much more than just a social networking platform. Now, following a partnership with Mobike, people can use the app to get around on two wheels.

WeChat does almost everything; it’s a messaging service, social platform, marketplace, and a place to do life admin. And now, its users can snatch the latest Lady Dior bag straight through the app after French fashion house Dior became the first designer brand to sell its handbags through the platform.

From messaging to social media to a marketplace to browsing the internet, WeChat is the app the does everything. While Western companies and app developers race to unbundle their services into efficient single-purpose apps, WeChat continues to add feature after feature.