#42 - Why Working Less Makes You More Productive with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
About this episode
This episode discusses how working less can enhance productivity and creativity, featuring insights from expert Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.
In a culture that celebrates busyness and long working hours, rest is often treated as something we earn after productivity. But what if that idea is completely wrong? In this episode of Academic Coaching for Parents , I am joined by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, founder of 4 Day Week Studio and a globally recognised expert on the future of work. Alex has worked with companies, nonprofits and governments around the world to rethink how productivity and work culture should function. He is the author of several influential books including Rest, Shorter, Work Less Do More: Designing the 4 Day Week and The Distraction Addiction. His work explores how individuals and organisations can better integrate rest, creativity and focus into modern working life. His research challenges the deeply embedded belief that working longer hours leads to better results. Instead, it shows that many highly creative and productive individuals rarely worked more than four focused hours per day and built their lives around deliberate rest, recovery and deep focus. In this conversation we explore how rest supports creativity, learning and sustained performance and why working…
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