Travel Megatrends 2021: Work From Anywhere Spurs a New Type of Business Travel


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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.

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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