No matter how much you like your colleagues, don't think of your workplace as a family, says Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky.
Chesky learned this lesson from experience, he told Wharton psychologist Adam Grant's "ReThinking" podcast in May.
In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chesky penned a note to employees explaining that the company would conduct layoffs.
And it is true that a company's not a family.
"We used to refer to ourselves as a family, and then we did have to fire people, or they'd have to leave the company, and you don't fire members of your family," he added.
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