Why Airbnb CEO is moving full-time to properties listed by his company

COVID-19: Brian Chesky, the CEO of vacation rental company Airbnb, said that since work is still remote, many people are likely to spend time in different cities and become “digital nomads”.

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January 19, 2022 / 09:52 IST

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he wanted to improve the experience for people who are free to live and work from anywhere.

Brian Chesky, the chief executive officer (CEO) of vacation rental company Airbnb, has said that he will start living full-time in properties listed by his company. Chesky added that it will help Airbnb improve the experience for people who are free to live and work from anywhere as offices are shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Starting today, I’ll be living on Airbnb,” Chesky said in the first of a series of tweets on January 18. "I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks. This week I'm in Atlanta. I'll be coming back to San Francisco often, but for now my home will be an Airbnb somewhere.”

1. Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb. I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks
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— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) January 18, 2022

Chesky added that since the invention of commercial flying, it is the coronavirus pandemic that has led to the biggest change in how people travel.

“For the first time, millions of people can now live anywhere,” the Airbnb CEO added. “Remote work has untethered many people (obviously not everyone, but a large chunk) from the need to be in an office every day.”

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