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?
Scribendi is an online document editing and proofreading company.
We provide business process outsourcing services to clients and their customers through our work anywhere workforce of home agents.
Origin Eight is dedicated to the artful integration of user-centered design and technology for world-class web and application development. Our team collaborates and partners 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…
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…
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?
Many of the earliest hires were together in Boston, but we quickly started growing our team outside of the home base. So, kinda-sorta.
AirTreks is a 30-year-old company that at one time received Silicon Valley funding and had a big office in downtown San Francisco. We worked from…
We started out as a virtual company with the intent to be virtual. We wanted to embrace modern technology that had never been created or…
How important is remote work to your business model?
RunRepeat.com wouldn’t exist with only a local workforce. Talent is scarce, and expanding quickly wouldn’t be possible.
It’s crucial to our business model. As a 100% virtual company, we’re able to hire the very best people, regardless of where they live. Our…
It definitely has a huge influence on how we work, on our processes and conventions. Being remote changes how you communicate — err on the…
What do you consider the biggest benefits of a remote workforce?
I think the biggest benefit of a remote workforce is permitting our team the ability to manage their lives and their work. While this set…
Building an amazing culture where people take responsibility and ownership to do the right thing and be amazingly productive.
Definitely, it’s the people. Being able to grow the team with the right players no matter where they live.
What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce?
We started that way. It came natural for us. No-one likes commuting, and we value work/life balance quite a bit. Plus we want to hire…
Early-on we didn’t have much of a choice. When we started the company, Jeff lived in Santa Barbara, while Sieva was living in San Francisco.…
We integrated remote work right from the beginning because it was the only way we could create the company that we wanted to create with…
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