Hello, my worker bees! So let's face it, the perfect office probably doesn't exist – but if it did, it would be the brainchild of Alex Soojung Kim Pang, PHD, a Silicon Valley consultant and a futurist who has spent the last two decades researching the nature of people, work and technology. Alex totally transformed how I think about the 'work-life balance' – we spoke about the need to instead create a sense of 'harmony' in your working day, instead (which also takes into account how much solo/social time you need as an individual). He proved a fascinating guest – we chatted about:Getting the right balance of social interaction and focussed solitude at workThe relationship between 'rest' and being aloneHow to find a greater degree of purpose and 'flow' in our working daysThe need to create a distraction-free office environment post-pandemicWhether the terms ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ are useful – or notWhy we need to bring back the communal office lunchtime& more!Happy listening.Alex Soojung-Kim Pang’s book, Rest, is available to buy now.My book, Alonement: How To Be Alone and Absolutely Own It, is also out now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. Social links:Twitter:* @ChezSpecter*@askpangInstagram: @alonementofficial*@ChezSpecter*@askpang*Contact: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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