Airbnb CEO: Present workplace designs are outdated

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“I think an office as we know it is kind of an outdated notion,” Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit on Wednesday. “It’s primarily, as it’s currently designed, an anachronistic form factor from a pre-digital age.”

He said that the company “100%” plans to redesign its offices — but admitted he doesn’t know exactly what it will look like.

“I thought we had a pretty cool office design before,” he said. “I would like us to be really innovative in the office and workplace design of the future and I think we have to live in this new world to figure out what it’s going to look like. But the office of the future should not resemble at all the office of the past because the world is changing.”

One thing he did predict was the fall of the open office floor plan.

“The open floor plan with these meeting rooms that everyone’s waiting in line to get in and no one can find a meeting room, all of that is I think a thing of the past.”

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