When Airbnb’s Dublin-based staff logged in for remote work on Wednesday morning, their first task was to join a video conference for all employees in Europe and the Middle East with the company’s co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky from his own California home. Overnight, Chesky had announced that the online travel accommodation agent was laying off 1,900 of its 7,500 staff as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. “While we know Airbnb’s business will fully recover, the changes it will undergo are not temporary or short-lived. Because of this, we need to make more fundamental changes to Airbnb by reducing…

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