Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
AIRBNB HOSTS ARE melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20, quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday. Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up after themselves.
“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,” one person wrote in Airbnb’s official forum for hosts. “The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”
Is this bait?
You don’t even have to click into the article to read what they’re referring to. The post pulls the relevant quote.
Why is a guest responsible for taking trash offsite? Making sure trash is disposed of in the bin, sure, but to use your bakery example it’d be like expecting patrons to change the trash bags and take it out to the dumpster. No respectable business operates like that.
What’s insulting is being charged a cleaning fee when you know that there is no cleaning being done between guests.
Airbnb is not saying you can leave a place in “chaos”. They’re saying you’re not a paid employee and shouldn’t be tasked with things employees would likely do.
The only thing I can see disagreeing with is the dishes thing, but presumably if you were to load and run the dishwasher before leaving the host could say you didn’t put them away which is unreasonable in my opinion. You still can’t just leave trash and dishes strewn about.