United Tests Bundling Flights With Meeting Space for Remote Workers in Subscription Model
Photo Credit: A Los Angeles loft for rent by the hour via Peerspace. Peerspace
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As many companies opt out of their long-term leases for some of their offices, they face a new need for more team gatherings to ensure collaboration and company culture among distributed teams. This trend is an opportunity for the travel sector.
Airlines that depend on business travel for profitability may need to entertain the idea that the world has changed for years to come, rather than hold out in hopes of a speedy return to normal. United Airlines, at least, is trying an experiment premised on the notion that a slice of businesses will maintain a larger remote workforce than they ever have before.
United said Tuesday it had cut a deal with Peerspace, an aggregator of meeting and event spaces, to offer packages that bundle flights with meeting space rentals and related services for businesses wanting to gather employees outside of offices.
Here's how the "Team Together" packages work: A company can sign up for an annual subscription that includes travel from United and meeting space from Peerspace. A company wanting to gather distributed workers can use Peerspace's concierge and United's agents to book quarterly meetings and arrange for the tr
