Source: Fast Company
Summary
Arianna Huffington’s new venture, Thrive, aims to prioritize work-life balance and tackle burnout. The company is launching a new platform that uses AI to help employees manage their time and energy. The platform, called Thrive Reset, uses data and analytics to identify burnout risks and provide personalized recommendations for improvement. According to Huffington, the goal is to create a culture that values well-being over productivity. The company is also partnering with businesses to implement Thrive Reset in the workplace.
Our Reading
The launch follows a familiar script.
Thrive Reset promises to use AI to save us from ourselves, because clearly, we need an app for that. The platform claims to use data and analytics to identify burnout risks, because checking our email 24/7 wasn’t a dead giveaway. Arianna Huffington’s new venture is betting that work-life balance can beat burnout, because that’s exactly what we need – another thing to balance. The company is partnering with businesses to implement Thrive Reset in the workplace, because what could possibly go wrong with that. Thrive Reset is just the latest attempt to monetize our exhaustion.
Author: Evan Null
