Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang a leading voice in reduced hours working. He is the author of three books exploring how companies and individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into digital-age lives and work: Shorter: How Working Less Will Revolutionise the Way Your Company Gets Things Done (2020); Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (2016), and The Distraction Addiction (2013). He has given talks around the world on the future of technology and work, in venues ranging from the CIA headquarters in Langley, to the Globe Theatre in London, to the Googleplex in Silicon Valley. Before joining 4 Day Week Global, Alex was a research director at the Institute for the Future and senior consultant at Strategic Business Insights, and lectured at Oxford University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Alex received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.