'The way to see the future is not to look at the big banks and the old companies,' says Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. 'If you want to know what the workplace future looks like, look at young companies, because young companies basically don’t have any legacy'
You’re speaking of this as something that you think will happen, but not something you necessarily endorse?
Yeah. I agree with the concern. If we were to abstract it at a larger level, physical communities are getting digitized. The mall became Amazon—and there’s some great things about that. But the problem is you go to the mall, and you see people different than you and you’ve got to look people in the eye and bump up to people, you have to wait in line and wait for the person, be courteous and you don’t get to pick everyone around you.
Yes, but let me preface this by saying that if we talk in a year or two, I will be much more intelligent because we’re basically all at the beginning of an experiment. These are like theories in my head, right? I might change my answer once I test it—designers like to prototype something, and then say “Yeah, I guess that doesn’t really work.” But here’s my theory: I think that we need to move from multi-use spaces to more single-use spaces.
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