Holding a Global Sports Event in Qatar?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We debate the choice of Qatar as the host of FIFA’s World Cup. Was it a mistake to hold the tournament in a country that criminalizes homosexuality? Was this exactly the right thing to do? Who is to judge? Mihir, Felix and their colleague Tsedal Neeley struggle with the question when to say no to countries’ hosting ambitions. Plus, we debate the ongoing workplace revolution. Where will it all end? Did hybrid really win?
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:16.8 | Hello everyone, this is after hours. I'm Felix. I'm here. I'm Sadal Nili. Hello. Welcome. Great to have you here |
| 0:23.6 | So happy to be here. It's fabulous to have you. One thing I noticed is these days online |
| 0:31.0 | When digital comes up |
| 0:33.1 | You're always there. I see your name everywhere. How did you get interested in digital in the first place? |
| 0:39.7 | You know, it's interesting because it started 20 plus years ago |
| 0:45.0 | Even before digital was a thing. Yes |
| 0:47.9 | When I was selling telecommunication technology and saw the potential of technology voice over IP |
| 0:56.3 | Video conferencing and all sorts of things that completely revolutionized how I thought about work and working |
| 1:03.7 | So I've been looking at |
| 1:05.7 | All things related to digital for over two decades. That is great |
| 1:10.5 | Well as you all may know Sadal is one of our wonderful colleagues has written books on the digital mind set |
| 1:16.2 | Most recently, but also on the remote work revolution and we're really really excited to have her |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah, so Sadal what did you want to talk about this week? I want to talk about a long mask and his stance on your |
| 1:27.5 | remote work remote work painful, but okay |
| 1:32.2 | And Felix what did you bring? I have of course a much more joyous topic |
| 1:36.3 | I would love to talk about the FIFA World Cup and in particular the controversy around the world cup |
| 1:42.7 | Oh my god, these are like two bland minds. We got World Cup Qatar and we got Twitter and remote work |
| 1:48.5 | This is going to be good. Yeah, let's do |
| 1:55.9 | So Sadal |
| 1:57.1 | Elon Musk and hybrid work. What's on your mind? |
| 2:01.6 | It's more like Elon Musk |
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