It just becomes a job.”In many ways, Airbnb was the ideal example of a commitment culture company. Airbnb, which had been on track to go public this year, suddenly faced an avalanche of travel cancellations. Weeks later, Chesky announced the layoffs and scaled back the company’s ambitions.“Everything that kind of could go wrong did go wrong,” he said in an interview. A spokesman said the company spent only a small amount on landscaping and related services.One area hit by layoffs was Airbnb’s safety team, which handles situations like shootings and assaults at its rentals. Airbnb asked some laid-off employees to return temporarily to work through the cases, they said.

Source: Economic Times July 18, 2020 02:03 UTC