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- The home-exchange startup Swapdesk is targeting remote workers who can temporarily trade places.
- The company is focused on growing in big cities like London, New York, and Paris.
- Users have to give their work email so swappers have a sense of who they're changing homes with.
For Allen Boening, getting laid off in the wave of tech job cuts earlier this year wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It was the push he needed to start a business that helps remote workers find comfortable, quiet places to set up shop.
Boening and a friend from college had been talking for months about developing a home-swapping tool for their tech-industry colleagues who can work remotely.