(TAN): With most workers significantly impacted by Covid-19, the desire and need to live and work anywhere has grown significantly in recent times. Many of such digital nomads are turning to Airbnb to meet these needs, the home sharing platform said.
According to a recent Harris poll, 74% of Americans already working remotely would consider taking a “work-cation” where they live and work somewhere other than their home for an extended period of time. And 46% of those working remotely in the US say that they have already used Airbnb to find a remote working destination.
The volume of reviews by US guests mentioning “remote working” or “work remotely” since the start of the pandemic has nearly tripled from the same period last year. Guests are often accompanied by their pets. The number of amenities searched using the “allow pets” filter jumped 90% compared to last year.
In terms of location preferences, according to the same survey, digital nomads in the US are looking to coastal states as their ideal work-from-anywhere locations. Almost 20% of those surveyed picked California, When asked to pick anywhere to work in the US.
With the changing ways people are working and traveling, Airbnb has lately seen a global increase in hosts offering longer-term (more than 28 days) and monthly stays, and more guests are booking these types of stays worldwide. Many hosts with Airbnb are also offering discounts for such extended trips.
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Lauren Z. Ray, an Airbnb guest, said, “We work from our computers a lot, so we spend more time in our Airbnb than most…. Last year, we spent every month in a new country staying at Airbnbs, and now we spend every month in a new city in the US at Airbnbs. Traveling within the US has been really eye-opening, as we haven’t seen very much of it yet.”
