

“One Box employee moved to our London office from Redwood City (CA), and while she was looking for an apartment she stayed in an Airbnb in London for a month,” said Rachel Ersted, former Treasury Analyst at Box, a cloud management and file sharing service for businesses. Relocations also require longer stays than traditional business trips as employees and their families transition to a new location. Extended stays can range from long business trips of five days to a week, to training sessions that require several weeks away and on-site projects that can last several months to a year.


When business needs require an employee to spend an extended period of time away from home, or relocate to another city or country, Airbnb for Work can provide an accommodation solution that gives corporate travel and mobility managers a flexible option for long-term stays and offers employees more choices for location and lodging style.Įmployees travel for business on extended stays for different reasons and lengths of time. Obviously, a stay of 2 nights will require a lot less cleaning (and turnover of sheets, towels, etc) that a stay of 25 nights.A smart option for work relocations and extended stays By that I mean, we could specify cleaning charges at something like a base charge of $XX (for example, $20), then an add'l $YY (for example $10) for each add'l day.īasically, something more realistic that the current $XX ($35, or $50, or $150) single cleaning charge, no matter the length of the stay. Or AirBnB could allow the host to set the cleaning charge on a per-day / per-stay basis. Leaving it up to the host to specify the values for X and Y. For example, a host could specify that stays of 1-5 days (or whatever) would incur one cleaning charge (and come with one change of sheets, towels, whatever), but that an add'l cleaning could occur every X days for an add'l charge of Y. One approach would be to allow a host to specify the cleaning fee on a per-(day-count) basis, where the "day-count" could be specified by the host. This is a weak point in AirBnB's pricing model, and something they should address.
