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?
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…
Packlane is an online printing company that makes the process of ordering custom packaging easy and affordable for brands of any size by offering super…
We’re a SaaS company, and our signature product is Edgar, a social media scheduling tool. Edgar makes it faster and easier for small businesses, entrepreneurs,…
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…
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.
Did you switch to remote or start out that way?
Yes, the company began as a remote organization from the start.
Yes. We started out remote.
We did start out as a distributed team, but several of our team members joined from companies with offices. Switching them over to remote working…
How important is remote work to your business model?
We have an international product available to users all over the world so we believe it to be important to also have an international team…
I believe that the core of what we stand for as a business could do fine with or without a distributed team. However, sourcing talent…
Allowing remote work is an essential element of our ability to hire the very best people, regardless of where they happen to live, in order…
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
For engineering, the main benefit is being able to hire people who have the technical skills we need regardless of where they are located. That…
The fact that we can hire the most talented people, no matter where they’re located, has contributed dramatically to our success. We’re not asking people…
We are able to tap into all of the great talent of people who cannot work out of the home. There is an amazing talent…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
It is a lifestyle I am passionate about, and my wife and I have lived this lifestyle for about two years now. Just when I…
To allow for continued growth as a company we integrated remote work. The major benefits have been the redundancy of our operating system by not…
Our team was largely used to working remotely already from prior jobs, and one of our team members lives all the way out in Florida.…
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