Diolch, Llywydd. I welcome this debate today and the opportunity to contribute on behalf of the Welsh Government. The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the way we look at almost everything in our daily lives, including the world of work, and it's given added momentum to the possibility of achieving a better work-life balance that supports both our individual and collective well-being. 

The pace and scale of change in the world of work is immense, and the pandemic has served to intensify interest in more flexible practices, from longer term remote working and working closer to home to more prominent considerations of a shift to a four-day working week. The traditional model of an eight-hour day, five days a week spent in a particular fixed place of work is increasingly out of step with how many workers want to lead their lives, and it's also not the way in which many employers want to organise their own activity.

The continued growth of remote working and automation, as we've heard, are just two of the forces that are acting as both—[Interruption.] Quickly.