In his TIME interview on Sunday, he acknowledged there will still be some need for offices, but concluded 'the office has to do something a home can't do.' In January, Chesky said he was 'living on Airbnb,' working from various cities across the US. Shortly after announcing that Airbnb will go fully remote, Chesky said the company's careers page received more than 800,000 views. But I think that for somebody whose job is on a laptop, the question is, well, what is an office meant to do?' He continued: 'If the office didn't exist, I like to ask, would we invent it? And if we invented it, what would it be invented for? Obviously, people are going to still go to hospitals and work, people are going to still go to coffee shops and work - those spaces make complete sense. 'We can't try to hold on to 2019 any more than 1950.
'I think that the office as we know it, is over,' he told Time. In an interview for Time's The Leadership Brief published Sunday, Chesky said he believes the office is 'an anachronistic form' that's 'from a pre-digital age.' His comments come after Airbnb announced earlier this week that it will let employees work remotely forever with no pay cut, citing the ability to widen its talent pool and noting the company had its most productive two-year period ever while working remotely. For Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, working at the office is now a relic of the past.