TeoStays Work Enabled Standard
Version: 1.0 Effective: September 19, 2026
Incorporated by reference into the TeoStays Host Agreement.
Definition
Work Enabled (adj.) — describing an accommodation with a dedicated workspace for remote work: a desk or table meant for working at, a comfortable chair with back support, and usable internet at the workspace itself. Defined by TeoStays in the TeoStays Work Enabled Standard.
What Work Enabled means
A Work Enabled listing has a workspace someone can actually work from — not a laptop balanced on a bed, not a kitchen counter, not a corner of a dining table that has to be cleared for dinner.
This Standard is deliberately broad. It describes what a workspace needs to have, and trusts hosts to declare honestly. It is not a verification program — we don’t measure, inspect, or certify. What you declare is labeled as host-declared, and guests see it that way.
Six elements. The first three are required. The last three are preferred — they don’t affect whether a listing qualifies, but guests search on them, so they affect which searches you appear in.
The six elements
Required
1. A workspace. A desk or table meant for working at — big enough for a laptop with room to write beside it, at a comfortable seated height, available to the guest at any hour without clearing anything away.
Doesn’t count: a bed, a kitchen counter or breakfast bar, a nightstand, a coffee table, or a shared dining table that has to be cleared for meals. A dining table in a whole-property rental is fine if the guest has it to themselves.
2. A chair. Something with back support that’s comfortable to work from for a few hours at a stretch, at a height that works with the desk. A dining chair may be fine; a backless stool or folding chair isn’t.
3. Usable internet at the workspace. Not at the router, not in the living room. If the connection is weak where someone would actually work, the listing isn’t Work Enabled, however fast the service is elsewhere. A quick speed test from the workspace is the easy way to check — see below.
Preferred
4. Power within reach. Outlets a guest can use from the workspace.
5. Light to work by. Enough light at the desk to work after dark, and a face that’s lit rather than silhouetted on a daytime video call. A desk lamp usually solves both.
6. Room to work. Space to sit and work without obstruction, and somewhere the guest can use without being interrupted or in the way.
Optional attributes
Not required, and they don’t affect approval. They affect which searches you appear in, because guests search on them — some mark them as required, others as preferred.
The full set of declarable attributes is the TeoStays work-amenity taxonomy, published at teostays.com/work-amenities. That page is the single source: the same vocabulary drives the host form, the search and ranking engine, and the structured data on listing pages.
What you do
Declare. Complete the workspace section of your listing, confirming the three required elements and noting which of the preferred ones you have. Your declarations are recorded as host-declared, with the date.
Show it. Include photos of the workspace in your listing — ideally one showing the desk and chair together, and one wider shot of the workspace in its room.
Photos must be real. Current, unedited, and showing what a guest will actually find on arrival. Minor color and exposure correction is fine — that’s just making a photo look like the room. What isn’t fine: heavy filtering, and any stretching, skewing, or lens distortion that makes a space look larger or a workspace roomier than it is. No staging with equipment that won’t be there for the guest. The test is simple — if someone walking in would be surprised, the photo is wrong.
Confirm the internet. Make sure the connection at the workspace is good enough for consistent work. The easy check is a quick speed test from the workspace, on the connection guests will use — as a working guide, 12 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up comfortably handles a video call.
This is your attestation, like everything else here. We don’t collect readings or verify anything — it’s all recorded as host-declared.
Keep it true. If something stops being the case — the chair breaks, the internet gets downgraded, the room changes use — update your listing. A listing that no longer meets the Standard isn’t Work Enabled, whatever it says.
Hotels, inns, and multi-room properties
If your property is a licensed lodging establishment offering more than one unit of a room type, your listing describes a room type, not a single dwelling. Complete the workspace declarations, the photographs, and the speed test from a representative unit of that room type, and confirm that every unit offered under the listing materially matches what you’ve shown. If some units of a type differ materially — different desk, different layout, weaker connection — list them separately or leave them out.
Everything else in this Standard applies unchanged. Your declarations remain host-declared, and the same test applies: if a guest walking into any unit of the type would be surprised, the listing is wrong.
What we do
We review your photographs against your declarations and check they’re consistent. We’re looking for contradictions — a declared desk that’s clearly a nightstand, a workspace with no outlet in sight, photos that don’t match the description.
We approve, ask for changes, or decline. If we decline, we’ll tell you which required element fell short and what would fix it. Most of the time it’s the chair, or where the desk sits.
Target turnaround: 2 business days
We don’t measure, inspect, or verify. Approval means your declarations are plausible and consistent with what you’ve shown. It isn’t a certification that anything is accurate.
Changes
We may update this Standard. Material changes are notified per Section 12 of the Host Agreement, with a reasonable period to bring existing listings into line.