‘Working: What We Do All Day’ (2023). Documentary on Netflix with Barack Obama

Working: What We Do All Day is a documentary directed by Caroline Suh.

The presence of Barack Obama is the main attraction in this documentary series about normal people and the matter that keeps us busy most of the day: working and making the world, in some strange way, keep turning around (even though deep down it doesn’t need us at all).

The former president takes a tour around the United States and engages with its people, from hotel employees to executives, from the first to the last, on a journey to, as he says, know why we are connected.

As Michelle Obama already did, it is now Barack, the former president, who makes his foray into the world of television, also by the hand of Netflix, to take us to a journey that is not extravagant, not vulgar at all and certainly singular.

Work: That what we do all day is a walk through the streets and its people, interesting, cordial and very light and close, a documentary that achieves what it wants, what it intends and seeks: the naturalness and the special in, precisely, the not special by the hand of a guy who had, yes, a pretty special job.

Enjoy it.

Release date

May 17, 2023

Where to Watch Working: What We Do All Day

Netflix

Episode List

Service Jobs

One mom must quit a job over scheduling woes, and another feels social media pressure while juggling gigs. Automation has The Pierre Hotel staff worried.

The Middle

To fuel his music career, a man works an hourly job at a self-driving vehicle company. A home care supervisor faces a worker shortage over low wages.

Dream Jobs

A young dad admits he thinks about work and talks to co-workers after hours. A Mississippi lobbyist goes to bat for the struggling caregiving industry.

The Boss

The founder of a home care company takes lower pay so she can give her employees a better salary. A CEO admits his driverless trucks will take away jobs.