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?
Formstack is a technology company that understands big marketing problems and how to fix them. We use our robust online form building software as a…
Intridea is an internationally recognized leader in design, user experience, AngularJS, front-end engineering, and open source. A 2011 Inc 500 fastest growing company, Intridea develops…
We’re a team of UX designers that design and build digital products for startups and enterprises.
What does your virtual team do within the company?
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…
World Service is the American Express global servicing network that delivers a unique Relationship Care® service experience. We focus on turning every customer interaction into…
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…
Did you switch to remote or start out that way?
We’ve been around since 2004, so we didn’t start remote. And we’ve been a company that has relied heavily on collaboration from day one. A…
It started out as remote.
Yep, remote from day one.
How important is remote work to your business model?
Remote work is vital to our business model since we operate in a highly competitive industry. We’re able to seek out the best talent no…
Pretty important. Not only does it make finding talent easier (covered in other sections), but having a remote team, across multiple time zones, allows us…
Remote work is critical to our success. We know that people deserve remote work to ensure they have choices in their career. Without remote work,…
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
From the beginning, Dave and XWP rejected the notion that so-called “outsourcing” or “offshoring” and remote, distributed teams were one and the same. Still, XWP…
I think there are several huge benefits. Since we are not geographically limited, we can seek the best team members from anywhere in the world. With…
It allows us to find the best talent and offer that talent the chance to work with a fun, talented team, a business that’s growing…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
Bitovi’s founders Justin Meyer (CEO) and Brian Moschel (CTO) set out to create a team to build amazing applications the right way. With this as…
DataStax provides products that are “wrapped around” open source software. The early employees were engineers who came from the open source world where there is…
Remote work is part of our core beliefs and the foundation of what we built our company upon. We value the freedom and flexibility that…
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