Why Remote
140 companies answer 6 questions
Choosing to take your company remote is not an easy decision. In our Why Remote section, we ask leading remote companies why and how they made the jump to remote. Here you'll gain insight from companies that were remote from day one as well as tips from companies that made the switch gradually over many months or even years.
What does your remote-friendly company do?
In a brief snippet, we’re an SEO and web design agency. To expand on that, we act as a full-service marketing agency that provides SEO,…
We take on the most critical issues facing women, mothers, and families by educating the public and mobilizing massive grassroots actions to: Bring the voices…
TeamGantt provides simple project scheduling software used by thousands of customers in over 60 countries to plan, track, and manage their projects online.
What does your virtual team do within the company?
CloudSource, the work at home division of Sutherland Global Services, employs customer service consultants from all 48 contiguous states to support industry leaders in the…
Ensures we attract the best talent and retain it through meaningful and effective company programs and a positive culture.
Our combined human resources and recruiting team helps identify talent around the globe for our corporate, full-time openings, as well as the numerous independent contractor…
Did you switch to remote or start out that way?
We used to have an office when we were a very small team—we even cooked lunches together and were a very close knit team since…
Yes! We’ve been remote since the beginning.
We are remote natives. We started our business with very limited investment dollars, zero job seekers, and zero business clients. Remote was the way to…
How important is remote work to your business model?
Remote work isn’t just a perk we offer our team – it’s the core of our business. As a 100% distributed agency, it allows us…
Remote work is essential to our business model. We want our forecasters to live where they forecast because local knowledge leads to more useful forecasts.…
It’s essential – finding talent shouldn’t be limited to a single location. Daily commuting or sticking to specific business hours is inefficient as we have…
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
The implied foundation of trust. We give our team the autonomy to figure out how they can do their best work. This can only happen…
It lets us hire the best talent, regardless of location, and It lets our team get work done and answer customer emails 24/7, without anyone…
Attracting top talent. In tech, there is a never ending war for talent and being tethered to a particular market, San Francisco for example, ends…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
We have always had a distributed workforce since inception. It was deliberate.
With the explosion of technological advances, we don’t believe that businesses today need a physical location to operate successfully. So we don’t view our structure…
The organization wanted to ensure that team members had the flexibility to work in the way they found most productive, as well as open the organization to a…