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?
We build the world’s best outdoor navigation tool, and our technology allows everybody to better find, plan, and live authentic outdoor experiences.
TOK.tv is the fastest-growing social network in sports, allowing fans to talk to their friends while watching a game on TV. We have 22M users,…
Stack Overflow is the largest online community of developers. We provide resources that help more than 40 million professional and aspiring developers learn, share their…
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?
Blossom was distributed from the start.
Not at all. Goodway became a 98 percent virtual company in 2006, once we transitioned from being a traditional print marketing company to an entirely…
We’ve always had a remote team, and the plan was always to recruit and retain a remote workforce. As such, our platform was built with…
How important is remote work to your business model?
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[A]’s culture emerges in part from our distributed nature. We’re flexible, nimble, constantly learning, working across roles, teams, industries, and skills. It would be difficult…
We are building a complex digital product and want to implement this aim for digital transformation in all processes, which of course includes how we…
It is extremely important. Remote work has allowed us to build an amazing team of 40+ with people from all over the world.
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
We are able to have people join our team who are passionate about building and supporting great software. There are huge advantages for customers, since…
The first is that it gives you a much better work-life integration. You’re no longer limited by a 9 to 5 schedule, or being stuck…
We believe that a remote workforce may actually be better for startups (especially for SaaS businesses) than the traditional office because you get access to…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
The founders have never worked in an office, so it was a natural thing to do. What strengthens the decision is that people usually love…
TNTP has always had a central office, but we’ve also always been primarily virtual. From the very beginning, we knew our people were our biggest…
Remote work is not only highly efficient, effective and good for the environment- it is great for mothers. The flexibility it allows makes taking care…
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