A documentary hosted and narrated by former US President Barack Obama has premiered on Netflix.
The four-part series features episodes where the ex-president interacts freely with ordinary citizens at their places of work.
It's a modern take on the 1974 book called 'Working' by former radio presenter Studs Terkel which featured interviews with ordinary Americans.
In depicting Terkel's interviews which centred around 'people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do,' Obama moves around offices as a fast food delivery guy as he interacts with staff in various offices.
At the start of the series, Obama speaks about borrowing the concept from Terkel's book which he read while in college.
"Sometime in college, I came across this book called "Working" by Studs Terkel which was a chronicle of people from every walk of life and what it was like for them to work," he says.
He says it was the first time anyone had bothered to ask ordinary people directly what work was like for them.
"This is right about the time where I became interested in trying to figure out what kind of work I was going to do," he adds.
He said the book which inspired the series was written at a time the world was experiencing a shift in culture ushering in a new era of automation and global competition which was having a huge impact on people's lives.
"Fifty years later, we're in another moment of explosive change - artificial intelligence, remote work, spiralling inequality...What if we pick up Studs' project for this new moment?
"What if people we might never ordinarily meet invited us into their lives and told us about their ambitions? What if we started at the bottom and worked our way up? he posed.
