Working: What We Do All Day
{{Short description|2022 Netflix documentary series}}
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| genre = Docuseries
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| director = Caroline Suh
| presenter = Barack Obama
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| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 4
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| runtime = 50–54 min
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| network = Netflix
| first_aired = {{Start date|2023|05|17}}
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Working: What We Do All Day is a four-part Netflix documentary series regarding the work lives of various people in the United States, with each episode focusing on a socio-economic stratum of society. Barack Obama narrates the documentary, which also involves him interviewing some of the people featured in the episodes. The documentary is inspired by Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, the 1974 nonfiction book by Studs Terkel.{{Cite magazine |last=Berman |first=Julie |date=2023-05-17 |title=Obama's 'Working' Is a Timely But Uneven Labor Doc |url=https://time.com/6279943/working-review-obama-netflix/ |magazine=Time |language=en |issn=0040-781X}}{{Cite news |last=Kaiser-Schatzlein |first=Robin |date=2023-06-13 |title=Has America Ignored the Workplace for Too Long? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/magazine/working-netflix-obama.html |access-date=2023-07-12 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite magazine |last=Schwartz |first=Ben |date=2023-05-25 |title=Why Barack Obama's "Working" Isn't Quite… Working |url=https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=446123 |magazine=The Nation |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=John |date=2023-05-16 |title='Working: What We Do All Day' Review: Obama's New Jobs Tour |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/working-what-we-do-all-day-review-obamas-new-jobs-tour-2c1fb6e5 |access-date=2023-07-12 |issn=0099-9660}}
In its first six weeks on Netflix, the documentary received 2.3 million views. In the last six months of 2023, it accumulated an additional million views, making it one of the least-watched "higher-profile" Netflix productions of the year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-data-viewership-bombs-hits-1235917207/|title=Netflix Data Dump: The Biggest Bombs (and Hits)|first=Rick|last=Porter|date=June 7, 2024|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=June 7, 2024}}
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- {{IMDb title|tt27619797}}