Airbnb Ethics Chief Leaving Lodging Giant After Four Years (1)

Airbnb Inc., which earlier this month announced plans to cut 25% percent of its workforce due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has parted ways with its chief ethics officer and former general counsel.

Robert Chesnut, who joined Airbnb as its in-house legal chief in April 2016, told Bloomberg Law in a phone call Friday that his last day at the San Francisco-based online hospitality marketplace was May 27. He had previously posted on his LinkedIn profile about his departure.

“I’ll wake up tomorrow without a full time ‘day job’ for the first time since law school,” Chesnut wrote. “It feels ...