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?
Collage.com makes custom products easy for anyone to create. Our customers use the design tools we create at collage.com to customize more than 50 products,…
Parse.ly partners with digital publishers to provide clear audience insights through an intuitive analytics platform. It is built specifically for teams producing and distributing online…
We started off creating WordPress Themes. We now offer a range of themes and plugins to extend WordPress, including the fastest growing eCommerce solution, WooCommerce. With…
What does your virtual team do within the company?
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…
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?
Yes, we began as a distributed team.
We started as a remote company.
Yes and no. Way back in the early days, when we were in a completely different line of business, we had an office employees came…
How important is remote work to your business model?
First, it allows us to be our best user for our product. Second, it allows us to source talent from all over the world. Not…
For us, working remotely has literally made the difference between the company dying and surviving. If we were all to be based in San Francisco,…
Extremely important given our entire culture and business is founded on the remote principal. We’ve been remote from the beginning.
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
Lack of wasted time commuting back and forth every single day, ability to work flexible hours, hiring talent across the world, more flexible hiring alternatives.…
You are more mindful about the people you recruit and the team you build, which I think is a huge benefit. Remote work suits a…
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…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
We began as a remote work environment right from the start of the company’s inception. Because the company was a small startup operation, for cost…
We integrated remote work to best support our clients that are located throughout the United States and globally to provide a flexible environment for our…
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…