🛌 Roamr** - Airbnb for business trips, but you get paid in exchange for comfort.**
Corporate travel is a massive market, with companies spending significant amounts on hotel accommodations. Employees often opt for the most expensive options within their budget, with little motivation to save.
Roamr proposes to rethink this approach. Instead of paying for a hotel, an employee can stay with a colleague or friend. The money is then distributed as follows:
- 40% stays with the company as savings.
- 30% goes to the host employee.
- 30% goes to the traveler.
The main idea is that some people are willing to tolerate minor inconveniences if they receive a financial incentive for it. An additional bonus is the strengthening of informal connections among employees.
Currently, only 50 locations for accommodation are listed on the website, although the service claims to operate in over 100 countries. Recently, the startup secured $500,000 in funding 🤑
It's an interesting approach, especially for large corporations with employees scattered around the globe. It's great to get to know colleagues not just over Zoom, but also to earn from it 👍
overspecialization at the nation state level can create fragilities, when other nations have competing political systems you often don't see eye to eye. Even if it's less 'efficient' in the short run it might be worth having redundancies and self sufficiency. Plus as a huge importer why not replace some income taxes with tariffs. Income taxes might be more destructive long term
Also does 'universal' mean theft from the taxpayer?
overspecialization at the nation state level can create fragilities, when other nations have competing political systems you often don't see eye to eye. Even if it's less 'efficient' in the short run it might be worth having redundancies and self sufficiency. Plus as a huge importer why not replace some income taxes with tariffs. Income taxes might be more destructive long term
Also does 'universal' mean theft from the taxpayer?