Exploring how shorter work hours could improve productivity and profitability in the kids entertainment industry
The film and TV workforce was stretched even before the pandemic struck, and work-from-home has exacerbated things exponentially. With the "great resignation" looming, companies—and individuals—need to get smarter about finding a new balance. In a fascinating keynote entitled “Re-Balancing Act: Work strategies for a post-pandemic era,” futurist, entrepreneur and rest expert Alex Soojung-Kim Pang makes the case for shorter work weeks, lighter loads, more downtime, and why we all need to take a step back or risk burning out.
Alex’s latest book Shorter explores the global movement to shorten working hours, and how companies in a variety of industries are moving to four-day weeks or six-hour days, and seeing tangible returns in productivity and profitability. Through his company Strategy+Rest, Alex speaks to and works with companies around the world that want to apply these insights in their organizations. He received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a lecturer/visiting scholar at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Oxford University and Microsoft Research Cambridge. He is also the author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and The Distraction Addiction.
For those who can't join us in person, our five-day Kidscreen Summit Virtual event from March 7 to 11 will offer the following:
