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Let's not forget that the Airbnb CEO has vested interest in expansion of remote work. This means more digital nomads and folks who travel to work from anywhere, which benefits the Airbnb Network.

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At least they put their money where their mouth is. I for one have seen a lot of the productivity hits dissipate with the advent of remote work. It's at the expense of basic human psychology though. You really can't hire jerks, management cannot be "game players", and meetings need to be minimal and ad hoc. Remote work companies avoiding those 3 things eat in person companies lunch every day of the week as far as hours in and product out.

Name such a company.

Not a company, but as a product linux has eaten a lot of lunches that used to belong to companies working in person..

I’d be too busy tidying the house to avoid cleaning fees to do any nomadic work.

That’s not how cleaning fees work

that's right you pay this regardless, it's the quasi-discretionary things like not doing the laundry or turning on the dishwasher that get dinged for extra, just like a hotel.

Better to have a new world order than going to someone's building to use the internet. We have the internet now so yeah. Doing a team meet up every quarter is great. Don't need to do it like every Mon-Fri tho that's just not productive.

precisely, every single one of these reports is PR to pump Airbnb

> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.

via airbnb's latest earnings report from last week https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airbnb-stock-falls-sharply...

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