<story><title>Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere</title><url>https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>&amp;gt;Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well.&lt;p&gt;I think this is a genius growth play for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb! Next, they should lobby to get US and EU to make short-term &amp;quot;tourism + wfh&amp;quot; visas more accessible so that this becomes even more popular. I think everyone wins here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not an immigration&amp;#x2F;tax lawyer and could be completely wrong but if you&amp;#x27;re from EU&amp;#x2F;US&amp;#x2F;UK&amp;#x2F;AUS etc I&amp;#x27;m fairly sure you can work in another one of those countries for up to 90 days (and sometimes upto 183) without paying tax there or getting a work visa - as long as you&amp;#x27;re still resident and being paid in your home country under the Visa Waiver program.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked in NY offices and got paid in UK (admittedly a while ago and for less than 90 days) - but can&amp;#x27;t see why working in an Airbnb would be different.&lt;p&gt;Has anyone experience of this recently?</text></comment>
<story><title>Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere</title><url>https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anywhere/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ultimoo</author><text>&amp;gt;Most companies don’t do this because of the mountain of complexities with taxes, payroll, and time zone availability, but I hope we can open-source a solution so other companies can offer this flexibility as well.&lt;p&gt;I think this is a genius growth play for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb! Next, they should lobby to get US and EU to make short-term &amp;quot;tourism + wfh&amp;quot; visas more accessible so that this becomes even more popular. I think everyone wins here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lultimouomo</author><text>&amp;gt; I think everyone wins here.&lt;p&gt;Everyone except the cities that have already lost a quantity of apartments and offices that have been repurposed as AirBnBs...</text></comment>