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 provide HIM staffing and consulting services focused on clinical documentation improvement and medical coding quality. We help hospitals and providers obtain the best HIM…
We work in business development for veterinary offices all over North America – we help clients become even more successful through business development, staffing, training…
We’re a global services company that provides customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Each day, American…
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 started remote, since Dmitriy was in Ukraine and I was in The Netherlands. We hired people in different locations and it just started to…
We started remote from day 1.
We did start out remote back in 2009.
How important is remote work to your business model?
Extremely important given our entire culture and business is founded on the remote principal. We’ve been remote from the beginning.
Having a remote workforce has been instrumental for Plex in a variety of ways. First, it’s opened up our hiring capabilities to anywhere in the…
Remote work is vital to the success of our product and engineering teams. It allows us to hire the best people wherever they are in…
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…
Our team is super productive: The thing about hiring people for a distributed team is that they need to be self-motivated and productive working at…
The biggest benefit of a remote workforce is that it gives you the ability to bring on and retain a higher level of talent. In…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
We want to attract and hire the perfect candidates/employees for our team. In order to achieve this goal we cannot just hire on a local…
We wanted to recruit the top talent without worrying about geographic barriers, since most work can be done collaboratively via tools like Trello and Slack…
My co-founder and I had previous experience collaborating remotely, so as we bootstrapped we never even considered a physical office. Knowing we were always going…
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