Before we start this episode, I wanted to let you know that I will be in conversation with the brilliant author and broadcaster Candice Brathwaite at the Lyric in Soho on the 1st of November, talking all about the themes of this podcast and more.

You can book tickets at feign.co.uk forward slash Pandora.

There were companies that have moved to four-day weeks even during the pandemic that discovered

that in the course of moving everybody to remote work, adopting new collaboration tools,

they found that productivity was going up enough so that it would be possible to do a four-day

week and that people were sufficiently stressed from having to homeschool while simultaneously

trying to run Zoom meetings,

that a four-day week would be something that would be really appreciated by everybody. You're listening to Doing It Right with me, Pandora Sykes, a podcast where I talk to experts about the myths, anxieties and trends of modern life.

There's no such thing as the right life. But what

might we be getting wrong? In this series, I'll be exploring the ins and outs of sex, self-care,

and sadness, and lobbing big questions at my guests like, could a four-day work week

ever really take off? Why is society getting lonelier?

And what would a fair justice system look like?

This is a podcast that asks what can we do to live life better?

Not just for ourselves, but for everyone.

What would the ideal working week look like?

Could a four-day week and a three-day weekend ever really work?

Alex Pang is a futurist and tech consultant based in Silicon Valley, who spent 20 years studying

people, technology and our relationship with work.

In his fourth book, Shorter, Alex argues that a four-day week is not only better for public health,

but can also help the climate, and that you get more done when you work less.

That sounds like a paradox, but Alex is no provocateur, nor is this an abstract idea.

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