Airbnb says its employees can work from home or the office moving forward and their compensation won't change if they move, unless it's to a different country
Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt …
TechCrunchDevin Coldewey
Context & Ripple Effects
Airbnb’s policy follows earlier work-from-anywhere moves by Spotify, which paired remote work with co-working memberships, and Reddit’s decision not to cut U.S. employees’ pay for domestic moves. Airbnb makes the compensation commitment a more explicit part of workplace flexibility while retaining a country-based boundary.
Airbnb employees gain a choice between home and office work, and domestic movers retain their compensation; employees relocating across national borders remain subject to a different pay outcome.
Airbnb must administer workplace access and compensation around employee location, with the country boundary becoming the key exception to its location-neutral policy.
Second-order effects
Spotify and Reddit’s earlier remote-work commitments become clearer comparison points for tech workers evaluating whether flexibility includes both where they work and whether a domestic move changes pay.
Employers requiring office attendance face a more concrete retention benchmark from Airbnb: flexibility is paired with protection from domestic relocation-based pay reductions.
Third-order effects
If employers sustain policies like Airbnb’s, remote-work competition shifts from emergency home-working rules toward durable employment terms covering location, office access, and compensation geography.
The distinction between domestic and cross-border moves points to a lasting split in distributed-work models: companies may standardize flexibility within countries while treating international employment as a separate operating regime.
The trend: Tech employers are turning remote work from a temporary arrangement into a formal talent-policy choice, with compensation rules defining how portable a job actually is.
Very interesting: @airbnb has made the decision to effectively go permanently remote, new policies announced this evening by @bchesky. Good nuances in there, worth a read: https://news.airbnb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
5. To pull this off, we'll operate off of a multi-year roadmap with two major product releases a year, which will keep us working in a highly coordinated way
Thread by CEO of Airbnb @bchesky @elonmusk hasn't made any official statements on what Twitter's work from home policies will be should the sale close, but Twitter employees have been concerned that he will rescind the current policy. https://twitter.com/...
Airbnb just announced its new remote work policy for its employees. As someone who has lived in airbnbs the last two years, here are the lines that stood out to me the most... 🧵 https://news.airbnb.com/...
Why did we come up with this design? The world has become more flexible. Our business wouldn't have recovered as quickly from the pandemic if it hadn't been for millions of people working from Airbnbs
Been doing this broadly since 2015 and it works quite nicely. One difficulty is the meet-ups are expensive and it's easy to push them back to a too-infrequent schedule, which can cause a death spiral if big change is needed in the firm https://twitter.com/...
Every company with an office and staff should see this as a wake up call. Hybrid working and giving employees *choice* is the future. Ignoring it will mean less satisfied employees and fewer new applicants. I love how mobile tech makes it possible to work and live like this too. …
With the ability to hire talent anywhere, this is a fascinating move. It's always funny to see other folks bring this up at their own company but for a travel company, this makes sense to me https://news.airbnb.com/...
Interesting new WFH policy from Airbnb. This hybrid model of ‘work anywhere’ with a weeklong team meetup in some practical (and attractive) locale every quarter will be ‘the way’ for lots of tech companies. Your longitude (i.e. timezone) will matter more than location. https://tw…