Travel Megatrends 2021: Work From Anywhere Spurs a New Type of Business Travel
Photo Caption: Meetingsbooker.com launched a remote workspaces solution to facilitate the booking of local workspaces for teams working from home.
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By 2025, it turned out employees were happy to give up the office, but they wholeheartedly fought to keep some kind of physical interaction with coworkers.
The abrupt digitalization of the workplace and office culture in 2020 led to a surprise boom in a somewhat new form of “corporate travel” in the following years. Remote employees around the world were increasingly required to attend in-person company-wide meetings for team-building and collaboration. This helped offset those billion dollar losses many feared would hit due to video conferencing.
Some of the early signals came from short-term rental providers, which saw their average length of stay driven upwards