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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by mlthoughts2018 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:52PM (#23086838)
Administrators above them though are beginning to see their desire to travel isn’t actual justified in greater business value, so their mere preference or their assertion is less likely to be believed.
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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by nilkn on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @09:18PM (#23087001)
Travel for current or prospective customers has some of the best ROI of nearly any expense at the company, and this is well understood. To the contrary, everyone up the chain including the CEO is even more eager to resume sales travel.
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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by mlthoughts2018 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:48PM (#23087480)
This is precisely the falsehood the present time is dispelling.
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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:05PM (#23087549)
I think most salespeople have significantly decreased sales right now.

There are obviously other factors contributing to that other than the lack of travel, but this is not proving that sales will be fine without travel.

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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by 317070 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:22AM (#23089202)
But now zoom-sales is competing with zoom-sales, no-one is traveling. I doubt zoom-sales can compete with travel-sales.
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