Airbnb embraces home working with location-blind equal pay model

Firm to pay staff in US, UK and other countries flat rates regardless of their region's living costs

Airbnb staff will be able to work from almost anywhere they want, the company has announced, and they won't see their pay docked if they move outside metropolitan areas.

The new model will apply to staff in the US, but also those in the UK and other countries. To make it work, the company said it would focus in-person collaboration on roughly quarterly get-togethers and aim to bundle work together into two product releases a year, its chief executive and co-founder, Brian Chesky, said.