Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1015844/airbnb-chores-house-rules-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189150 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
The updated policy will apply to all reservations booked on the accommodation site on or after 20 November.
Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.
Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after November 20th, says hosts can't ask guests to "complete tasks that require significant effort or […]