Accor, CitizenM CEOs Tout New Remote Working Models
Skift Take
Live on stage at Skift Forum Europe last week, industry leaders shared their top-level vantage points on the future of work, and hospitality. One of them was more ahead of the curve than others. A little too far, in fact.
The increasing crossover between work and hospitality was a hot topic at Skift Forum Europe.
It was, inevitably, going to come up during the day’s closing interview with Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin, who gave an update on his Wojo co-working brand. It’s hard to keep up with the numbers because of the pace of new openings, whether dedicated spaces or hotel hotspots, but Bazin had an update, and claimed Wojo was now the second largest co-working space provider in France, with 70,000 square meters of space, and a 10,000 customer base of companies.
Travel agencies have long declared they’re targeting employees from smaller companies, as multinational firms retain their travel bans. But Bazin spelled it out clearly during his interview at The Londoner hotel.
“We stand to lose 20 to 25 percent of international business travelers,” he said. “But then you have the shift of working from the office, (to working) from home and now working from anywhere. You have hundreds of millions o
