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Arianna Huffington: It’s more important than ever to disconnect from screens and reconnect with ourselves

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Businesswoman, author, and co-founder of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington discusses life after Covid-19 with Andrew Ross Sorkin at CNBC Events’ first virtual conference, “At Work: Leadership and Management Amid Crisis.” She shares her perspective on how we live, work, and unplug as we shelter in place, and how our connectivity--to work and to ourselves--will change once the pandemic subsides.

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0:00.0

This is One of the fundamental delusions that has been driving us all, which is that in order to be successful,

0:17.0

we basically need to be on all the time. I think that's going to be completely sacrificed.

0:23.0

The Businesswoman Author and co-founder of the Huffington Post shares her vision for life on the job

0:28.0

after the coronavirus pandemic.

0:30.0

I think the future of work is going to change and the future of life is going to change.

0:36.0

Plus Ariana's secrets to unplugging even when work, home and leisure are all in the same place.

0:42.0

Now it's actually more important than never at some point to disconnect from screens and reconnect with ourselves.

0:50.0

It's Friday, April 10th, 2020, Squack Pot begins right after this. This is Squawk Pod from CNBC.

1:08.0

If working from home is your new normal, you're not alone. Myself, the majority of the team here at CNBC and millions of other people across the country are with you in spirit of course

1:15.2

despite social distancing or maybe because we're also isolated the show or in this

1:20.9

case the conference must go on.

1:23.6

To that end we're bringing you a conversation from

1:25.8

CNBC's first virtual event at work, leadership and management amid crisis

1:30.8

earlier this month.

1:32.0

On today's Squackpad Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses the future of work at home and beyond with Ariana Huffington. You can hear more CEOs, executives, and thought leaders comment on this same issue on the

1:43.2

CNBC events podcast that is called the keynote and you should check it out.

1:47.4

A quick refresher on Ariana Huffington, she's the CEO and founder of Thrive Global,

1:52.0

a media and consulting company that helps corporations

1:54.4

support their employees' overall well-being.

1:57.3

She co-founded the Huffington Post and she's authored over a dozen books on a whole range of things

2:01.7

from feminism to corporate America to

2:04.1

politics. But since 2007 Ariana's mission has been to connect well-being and

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