愛彼迎受疫情影響要裁員1/4
This afternoon Airbnb, a well-known private company that connects travelers with places to stay, announced that it was laying off around a quarter of its workforce. The company cited revenue declines and a need to curtail costs in a memo that TechCrunch viewed.
愛彼迎這家知名公司主要負責爲出行者尋找住宿地點。今天下午該公司宣佈要裁掉大約四分之一的員工。TechCrunch（美國科技類博客）看到該公司在備忘錄中說收入下降，需要削減成本。
In the note, written by Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky, the company said that 1,900 employees will be laid off, or 25.3% of its 7,500 workers. The layoffs will impact a number of internal product groups, including Transportation and Airbnb Studios, efforts that will be placed on hold, and its Hotels and Lux work, which will be “scale[d] back.”
愛彼迎首席執行官兼聯合創始人布萊恩·切斯基在便條中寫道，該公司將裁掉1,900名員工，佔其7,500名員工總數的25.3%。此次裁員將涉及包括交通和娛樂業務在內的很多內部產品組，並暫停業務擴展，“收縮”酒店和豪華民居項目。
The company declined to break down per-country totals for the layoffs in a phone call with TechCrunch, but its memo did note that its staffing cuts are “mapped to a more focused business.” The former startup appears to be narrowing its efforts, targeting core operations and shedding more experimental and costly endeavours.
該公司在與TechCrunch的通話中拒絕透露各國的裁員總數，但備忘錄中的確強調了裁員是爲了“保護重點業務”。這家曾經的初創公司似乎正在縮減項目，聚焦核心業務，不再進行更多的實驗性、耗資大的項目。
According to Chesky’s missive, Airbnb anticipates its 2020 revenue coming in under 50% of 2019’s total; Airbnb saw around $4.8 billion in revenue last year, according to reports.
切斯基在信中說，愛彼迎預計2020年的收入不到2019年總收入的50%。報告中說去年總收入約爲48億美元。
Airbnb had previously admitted that layoffs were a possibility in light of the COVID-19 pandemic impacting tourism and travel. The company has rapidly added capital in recent weeks including two $1 billion tranches of debt, providing extra liquidity as the world came to a standstill, freezing travelers in-place and decimating global travel spend. Airbnb couldn’t dodge a trend that hits its world directly.
愛彼迎此前稱，鑑於新冠疫情對旅遊業和出行造成了影響，可能會裁員。最近幾周該公司迅速增加資本，揹負了兩筆10億美元的債務，以便在全球按下暫停鍵時保證資金週轉。疫情導致出行者滯留在外，全球旅遊花銷大幅削減。在全球的大趨勢下，愛彼迎也不能扭轉乾坤。
In an effort to keep both the demand and supply sides of its marketplace healthy enough to survive hibernation, Airbnb has allowed users to cancel some reservations without penalty, and provided financial succor to its hosts. Presumably part of its new capital went to fund those efforts, along with providing the firm with enough cash to reach 2021 in reasonable shape.
愛彼迎爲了能在這一困難時期保證其市場上的供需雙方都不受影響，允許用戶免費取消預約，併爲房主提供經濟補償。大概新投入的資本中有一部分就是用在這兒了，剩餘的則是要爲公司提供充足的資金以維持到2021年。
