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 tax services for Americans living abroad. We have clients in over 150 countries. We specialize in US expat tax return preparation for individuals…
We do enterprise-scale WordPress web development.
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…
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…
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…
Did you switch to remote or start out that way?
Yes – we started that way.
SitePen’s deep involvement with the remotely-rooted open source community in addition to our CEO’s aversion to fluorescent lighting was what laid the foundation for SitePen’s…
We started as remote. I don’t see that ever changing.
How important is remote work to your business model?
Remote work is a genuine competitive advantage for Timely. We demonstrate every day how to be time efficient and successfully blend work and life. Our…
Vital to our business as we are distributed by design, meaning, we built our business to be completely remote and distributed from the ground up.…
Remote Year has a unique perspective on remote work because as a business, we help professionals from other companies advance their careers while traveling the…
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
Getting to choose from a wider, more diverse pool of candidates is an obvious benefit – we get to focus on what makes a candidate…
Access to talent, regardless of geography. In the past, companies were restricted to a talent pool in the immediate vicinity of their office building. For…
Being able to hire people from all walks of life and from all over the world definitely brings a worldly balance to the team and…
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
Blossom was always distributed from the start. We never had a formal office. We still mainly use coworking spaces, cafes, drop by at companies from…
We started that way, as a handful of technologists from Kenya but living in different places we creating a tool to respond to the 2008…
Collage.com is fundamentally a software company: we develop great software tools that our customers use to customize physical products, and then provide excellent customer support.…
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