[ajmurmann]

I spent hours and hours in 2020 clicking through AirBnB listings trying to find a viable place to work remotely from for a month. Sitting on a dining-room chair at a "desk" that cannot even fit a screen is not viable and arriving somewhere with the expectation to work remotely and then you cannot is a complete disaster and untenable risk. I wonder how it is that AirBnB still hasn't solved this. Intuitively I'd expect that they must have missed out on so much money during the pandemic due to this shortcoming.

Edit: Another alternative to the cafe would be which AirBnBs have a good co-working space in walking distance.

[idoescompooters]

I can speculate one reason Airbnb hasn't/refuses to solve this issue is similar to the reason YouTube got rid of the dislike button. It has the potential to decrease views, and in this case, decrease bookings if things are not good enough.

[kjkjadksj]

Its telling that all the advertising in the media you see of the prototypical digital nomad is someone at a cafe or in a hammock with a laptop, versus someone with three monitors and a herman miller chair.

[ajmurmann]

I wonder how much this feeds into the negative image many people have of "working remotely" as barely working. It might fall into a pattern where framing something as nicer than it is makes it less likely that we as a society continue to permit the thing. A similar case would be all new housing being positioned by developers as "luxury housing".