It broadens the talent pool greatly. First, it allows us to be our best user for our product. We aggressively avoid set working hours, encouraging employees to work when they want to, how they want to. Hiring people from around the world allows us to find the best talent, diversity we might not see in just one place, and in the end, be able to provide the best product and support to our customers. We also have a lot of customers that also have distributed teams, and they appreciate that we are a distributed team. We can only provide the highest quality services to our clients if were willing to invest in the highest quality staff. Talent is scarce, and expanding quickly wouldnt be possible. Without remote employees wed grow at a much slower rate. Also, in a service-based business, retention is key for building relationships. Its important because the whole team has the same opportunities. Extremely important given our entire culture and business is founded on the remote principal. Having remote capabilities allows people the freedom to develop their own schedule as long as it meets the goals of the work, and in many cases people work a full-time job during the day and a part-time remote job during the evenings and/or weekends. Remote work has allowed us to build an amazing team of 40+ with people from all over the world. What is your hiring process for remote workers? The ability to keep working actually helped them get through difficult times and situations. Critical it is the foundation, the reason the company was created. We look for the best talent independent of location thats a key factor in delivering expertise and high-quality project results. How do you conduct onboarding for remote workers? Without our remote editors, we would not be able to build such a qualified and diverse workforce, nor would we be able to keep up with the demand for editing and proofreading services. We are a small, high-growth business. In many ways, working remotely actually helps us build and maintain a more cohesive team, because we get to focus on priorities other than someones location on a map! We pride ourselves on a quirkiness that naturally developed as a result of our diversity. By allowing everyone to work from their preferred location, SitePen is able to attract and retain highly-skilled individuals who value work-life balance. was built on the promise and premise of remote work. Its at the core of our basic business offering (high-end software development services available across the globe from anywhere in the world), and it is also core to our culture. Being a globally distributed team gives us many unfair advantages. Our distributed nature allows us to grow our brain power, capabilities, diversity, effectiveness, and collective intelligence without the constraints of four walls in one geography. If you like, you can work traditional hours. What tips do you have to disconnect when working remotely? Weve always wanted to create a company that hinges on the ever important work/life balance, one where all team members are able to work wherever is most fruitful and comfortable. We also see remote work as simply keeping up with a changing workforce. Remote work makes our business model possible. Remote also helps us maintain our excellent uptime by ensuring that natural disasters, ISP outages and other catastrophes do not impact our ability to get the job done. Our customer service professionals are ready around the clock, ensuring our clients never miss a call. TRM helps our team work from where they are happiest while still staying on track towards our ultimate goal to create real value for customers and sustainable happiness for the team. 
Remote work is extremely important to our business model! As it stands weve been able to keep iterating on our product for much longer than typical, giving us an extra chance at becoming profitable. Remote work IS our business model. Its crucial to our business model. We realized early on that we wanted to build a business based on remote work for two reasons: 1. We could operate our firm from a physical location, but our remote model gives us access to a global talent pool, rather than a local or regional one, so we can employ the best American CPAs wherever they happen to reside, worldwide. At least in some measure, our success is built on a couple of core principles that I cant see succeeding in a co-located model (having helped build colocated shops, as well): Its the core of it. We really focus on the work and dont need offices or a location to conduct business. Hiring a remote workforce has allowed us to attract and retain top talent and reduce our overhead costs. A remote business structure is critical to our business model, as it allows us to recruit the very best team possibleregardless of their physical location. they can work when they want from home or wherever they are in the world. Remote work is paramount to our success. What advice would you give to a team considering to go remote? [A]s culture emerges in part from our distributed nature. Aha! Having a distributed team helps us to be available at different times and in different time zones for our customers. It makes TeamSnap an attractive destination for employees with families, who are typically more mature, empathetic and users of our product. computer/phone) to service our clients effectively. Remote work was at the core of our teams ethos from the beginning. The only way to leverage the talent needed for our business is through remote work! The remote work model has been critical to our success and growth. For some teams having people work across different time zones works in our favour, for example the Help Team can support our community 24 hours a day! How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs? Our clients get to work with the same people for years. Where is the best or worst place youve worked remotely? Very. Parse.lys entire product, engineering, and design team is distributed across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Since not every colleague is able or wants to relocate to Germany, remote work is essential for us and our work. RunRepeat.com wouldnt exist with only a local workforce. We deliberately formed the company as a 100% distributed company. All of our teachers in North America work from home at their chosen availability. We like to practice what we preach at HQ so we work remotely too. Remote work is integral to our business model at LoveToKnow. 
Weve seen people work from hospital rooms while a family member recovers from major surgery and from hotel rooms while searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Remote work lets us hire the best people from anywhere. While many recent tools make that a lot easier, that isnt enough: how the company works has to default to remote work. Our model is in many ways built around remote work. Today we have over 50 active partnerships in more than 25 cities. Flexible work options reduce our impact on the planet, create happy and more productive team members, and help Dell win by attracting and retaining the best talent. Remote work is vital to our business model! We judge people entirely on the work they produce and not when, how or where they do it. From a financial perspective, the cost-savings from remote work is significant which allows us to deliver an amazing product to our customers at an affordable price. Remote work is extremely important to our business model! There is no such thing as work life balance any more, there is just life and work is a part of it like everything else. We have been an entirely distributed company from day-one, and we now have team members working in locations throughout the U.S. and a few international locations too. But, this model allows us maximum flexibility in growing our team plus being oh-so nimble when it comes to face to face work with partners and new opportunities. We are able to hire the best talent no matter where they are, and we find that independently-driven people who value a flexible, work-wherever-is-best-for-you professional lifestyle end up making the most dedicated and accomplished employees. As an employer, we also offer our entire company (over 100 full-time employees) the ability to work remotely. If we limited ourselves to hiring only those who could commute to a city location, it would seriously hamper our ability to find the kind of highly skilled (and specialized) talent we need to offer our customers the very best service. We could not have been as successful using any other approach. The most important characteristic of our remote workforce is that it fits our culture and values. Additionally, our eagerness to hire remote gives us access to a global talent pool and allows us to hire experts without the typical challenges of market constraints. First, we can source the right talent from anywhere in the nation; we arent restricted to the over-tapped and overpriced markets of San Francisco and New York. Extremely important. We took the remote working concept and created an organization around its efficiency, necessity, and flexibility. We focus on body of work in lieu of a body at the office. What are the biggest benefits of being a remote worker? Happier employees means more loyal employees, so less turnover. Were able to leverage those situations to create tremendous opportunities for everyone here. When I opened The Tropical Travelers in 2001, I found there was a need for travel specialists. Just like we can do great service and support remotely for our clients, so can we collaborate as a team without being in the same room. It makes a lot of sense to us: if the best talent has no zip code, then of course we should be capitalizing on this as well! It also provides our team with a better quality of life. ICUC was built on a remote workforce. I believe that the world is quickly moving towards more flexible working arrangements, and that professionals will value more and more the ability to work from home, or from anywhere in the world! We want to work with the worlds leading, most passionate content creators, developers, designers, and SEO and PPC analysts. We hire the best people and empower them to choose any lifestyle they want, no matter where they are located. Empowered workers lead to empowered customers. How important is remote work to your business model? Rather than having an office and offer people to work remotely, we hire remotely from day one and suggest them to gather around in co-working spaces, for those who prefer to work in the company of other peers. The traditional office is going away and people are working from places and spaces of their choosing. Quality of life having been in the DC area for over 10 years, I know what its like spending 15% or more of your time commuting. Our flexible work model enables women with children to be moms and work, i.e. This is, More and more people are looking to work remotely because they want a career that integrates with their lifestyle and that means finding work that sees them through new chapters and challengeseverything from growing families, health conditions, and relocations. We can now hire the best candidate in the country, period. Automattic started from the very beginning as a distributed company. Having people in distributed time zones is also an advantage because the company is always on and working around the clock. Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers? We can recruit people anywhere, and can be more flexible with hours and schedules. Remote work is vital to our business model, because our company caters to remote teams. We are building a complex digital product and want to implement this aim for digital transformation in all processes, which of course includes how we work. How do you personally manage work-life balance? Very. It lets us find the best people for the roles we have. The ability to work remotely is extremely important to our business model. Having employees across time zones and with a more flexible working model also helps us respond to volumes and be there for our customers when they need us. This is of huge value. From a company culture perspective, remote work is also one of the most important parts of running our business. Building what we build, it would be impossible to tell our people they cant live wherever they want to live either in shorter spurts or longer stretches of time. It enables us to hire only the best. We demonstrate every day how to be time efficient and successfully blend work and life. Its vital. I think having a remote team early on forced us to create clear communication and process structure early on which later allowed our company to scale very quickly nationwide. Hiring the best we arent just limited to the best people we can hire who are also located within a 30 mile radius of our office. When we design a process or a policy for working together, our default assumption has to be that we will be remote. Without remote being an option, our partners would be settling for less quality with their development. For us, remote work does not mean outsourcing, which is typically an attempted arbitrage of costs. We never have to try to convince the right person to move somewhere he or she doesnt want to. First, we can source the right talent from anywhere in the nation; we arent restricted to the over-tapped and overpriced markets of San Francisco and New York. Weve been remote from the beginning. If we preach the benefits of location independent lifestyle, we have to make sure were equipped to embed top talent from wherever they choose to be. First, it lets us focus on the work. TOK.tv is a liquid company: working remotely is in our DNA. Growing the team remotely has given us quite a few advantages. We can find talent all over the world. Heres an anecdote to illustrate: Wordfence is growing very quickly and over a year ago we were just a team of two. We want our forecasters to live where they forecast because local knowledge leads to more useful forecasts. Weve been able to recruit and keep employees who would not want to work in a traditional contact center environment, but love our company because of the freedom remote work allows. Our team works hard, but we are equally passionate about the hours we spend away from work with family and friends and pursuing our passions. What elements are key to successful working relationships with remote teams? We have also seen the clear benefit of happier, more productive employees through this model, and from an environmental standpoint, remote is a no brainer. Weve always been remote and consider our being remote to be one of our greatest strengths, both in terms of building a great team and also in doing great work for our clients. Second, our employee retention rate is outstanding. People make businesses and going remote is the only way for us to hire the best possible people. Buying in fully into remote and being aware of it I believe are preconditions to making remote work a success. And it is this that enables us to provide an authentic English learning experience for our students in China. Even as a small team we cover almost all timezones without any struggle. Our business model was specifically designed to work from home. It definitely has a huge influence on how we work, on our processes and conventions. Also, because Batchbook is a SaaS product, we are working with customers from all over the world. What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce? Being distributed allows us to spend less time recruiting and retaining talent. 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. We are a completely virtual team using our own software and practicing what we preach. 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 world. do what we do from a central location like an office, but we dont have to. Not having a headquarters means that remote work is in our culture. Certainly, if we went brick and mortar, wed still thrive, I believe. Our remote-first structure has truly allowed us to thrive as a business. Now we are 15 people in three continents with five different time zones. Thats huge in our space. It makes sense to tap into talent from all over the world rather than setting geographical boundaries. , not much, but to our business, it matters a whole lot. This is the most important factor for most of our current teachers who stay with us. They can work from anywhere and spend more time with their loved ones. We arbitrage opportunity and drive. In theory, we. Remote working is our business model. We all value working hard and enjoying life at the same time. By switching over to home offices and client sites, we are more able to be there for our clients 24/7 and truly understand their needs, which is directly related to our goal of creating great workplaces! Were not paying people to sit in a specific chair from 9-5 were paying them to get work done. They love being on a journey with us to optimise their time and squeeze every bit of joy out of their busy lives. We get the best of the best in new hires thanks to a completely global applicant pool. Essential. They are more productive and efficient that way. Did you switch to remote or start out that way? This is especially important as our business is global too, with customers in nearly every single country in the world. Its been critical to our success. This allows us to attract the worlds top talent while also reducing op-ex since we dont have offices, etc. Remote workers make up a sizeable chunk of our customers. At the core of what we do is help surface those places and spaces. 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 to build the best possible product. Working remotely is one important aspect that has to be considered here. The other is that its a great way to hire talent that lives further than an hour from your main office. Remote work is a genuine competitive advantage for Timely. If were going to hire the best talent within a niche skillset, at any kind of scale, we need to get outside the 50 mile radius around an office building. Remote work is fundamental to Scribendis business model. Take someone who is used to making a San Francisco-level salary but doesnt want to live there anymore, for example, and enable them to travel and work from anywhere. It means we can get the best person for the role, not the best person within a 100 mile radius. The remote work model is very compatible with a results-based management style. Location isnt a limiting factor when it comes to finding top talent. That means we get the flexibility of hiring the best person for any position regardless of where they are, which in turn means we can create a better product and grow a more successful business. This flexibility also means we are able to attract highly qualified Team Members who can flex their day around personal commitments. Remote work is critically embedded into our business model. Facilitating asynchronous communication within distributed teams is critical to our products success though, so it wouldve been much, much harder to build something that does this job to the same high standard if we didnt have first-hand experience on a daily basis with the problems involved in remote work. Remote work is extremely important to our business model. Its extremely important for a few reasons. Our platform allows for all employees to access information regardless of their location. When one of our first team members joined us he came from a brick and mortar software engineering role.
Remote work is extremely important to our business model! As it stands weve been able to keep iterating on our product for much longer than typical, giving us an extra chance at becoming profitable. Remote work IS our business model. Its crucial to our business model. We realized early on that we wanted to build a business based on remote work for two reasons: 1. We could operate our firm from a physical location, but our remote model gives us access to a global talent pool, rather than a local or regional one, so we can employ the best American CPAs wherever they happen to reside, worldwide. At least in some measure, our success is built on a couple of core principles that I cant see succeeding in a co-located model (having helped build colocated shops, as well): Its the core of it. We really focus on the work and dont need offices or a location to conduct business. Hiring a remote workforce has allowed us to attract and retain top talent and reduce our overhead costs. A remote business structure is critical to our business model, as it allows us to recruit the very best team possibleregardless of their physical location. they can work when they want from home or wherever they are in the world. Remote work is paramount to our success. What advice would you give to a team considering to go remote? [A]s culture emerges in part from our distributed nature. Aha! Having a distributed team helps us to be available at different times and in different time zones for our customers. It makes TeamSnap an attractive destination for employees with families, who are typically more mature, empathetic and users of our product. computer/phone) to service our clients effectively. Remote work was at the core of our teams ethos from the beginning. The only way to leverage the talent needed for our business is through remote work! The remote work model has been critical to our success and growth. For some teams having people work across different time zones works in our favour, for example the Help Team can support our community 24 hours a day! How do you conduct interviews for remote jobs? Our clients get to work with the same people for years. Where is the best or worst place youve worked remotely? Very. Parse.lys entire product, engineering, and design team is distributed across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Since not every colleague is able or wants to relocate to Germany, remote work is essential for us and our work. RunRepeat.com wouldnt exist with only a local workforce. We deliberately formed the company as a 100% distributed company. All of our teachers in North America work from home at their chosen availability. We like to practice what we preach at HQ so we work remotely too. Remote work is integral to our business model at LoveToKnow. Weve seen people work from hospital rooms while a family member recovers from major surgery and from hotel rooms while searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Remote work lets us hire the best people from anywhere. While many recent tools make that a lot easier, that isnt enough: how the company works has to default to remote work. Our model is in many ways built around remote work. Today we have over 50 active partnerships in more than 25 cities. Flexible work options reduce our impact on the planet, create happy and more productive team members, and help Dell win by attracting and retaining the best talent. Remote work is vital to our business model! We judge people entirely on the work they produce and not when, how or where they do it. From a financial perspective, the cost-savings from remote work is significant which allows us to deliver an amazing product to our customers at an affordable price. Remote work is extremely important to our business model! There is no such thing as work life balance any more, there is just life and work is a part of it like everything else. We have been an entirely distributed company from day-one, and we now have team members working in locations throughout the U.S. and a few international locations too. But, this model allows us maximum flexibility in growing our team plus being oh-so nimble when it comes to face to face work with partners and new opportunities. We are able to hire the best talent no matter where they are, and we find that independently-driven people who value a flexible, work-wherever-is-best-for-you professional lifestyle end up making the most dedicated and accomplished employees. As an employer, we also offer our entire company (over 100 full-time employees) the ability to work remotely. If we limited ourselves to hiring only those who could commute to a city location, it would seriously hamper our ability to find the kind of highly skilled (and specialized) talent we need to offer our customers the very best service. We could not have been as successful using any other approach. The most important characteristic of our remote workforce is that it fits our culture and values. Additionally, our eagerness to hire remote gives us access to a global talent pool and allows us to hire experts without the typical challenges of market constraints. First, we can source the right talent from anywhere in the nation; we arent restricted to the over-tapped and overpriced markets of San Francisco and New York. Extremely important. We took the remote working concept and created an organization around its efficiency, necessity, and flexibility. We focus on body of work in lieu of a body at the office. What are the biggest benefits of being a remote worker? Happier employees means more loyal employees, so less turnover. Were able to leverage those situations to create tremendous opportunities for everyone here. When I opened The Tropical Travelers in 2001, I found there was a need for travel specialists. Just like we can do great service and support remotely for our clients, so can we collaborate as a team without being in the same room. It makes a lot of sense to us: if the best talent has no zip code, then of course we should be capitalizing on this as well! It also provides our team with a better quality of life. ICUC was built on a remote workforce. I believe that the world is quickly moving towards more flexible working arrangements, and that professionals will value more and more the ability to work from home, or from anywhere in the world! We want to work with the worlds leading, most passionate content creators, developers, designers, and SEO and PPC analysts. We hire the best people and empower them to choose any lifestyle they want, no matter where they are located. Empowered workers lead to empowered customers. How important is remote work to your business model? Rather than having an office and offer people to work remotely, we hire remotely from day one and suggest them to gather around in co-working spaces, for those who prefer to work in the company of other peers. The traditional office is going away and people are working from places and spaces of their choosing. Quality of life having been in the DC area for over 10 years, I know what its like spending 15% or more of your time commuting. Our flexible work model enables women with children to be moms and work, i.e. This is, More and more people are looking to work remotely because they want a career that integrates with their lifestyle and that means finding work that sees them through new chapters and challengeseverything from growing families, health conditions, and relocations. We can now hire the best candidate in the country, period. Automattic started from the very beginning as a distributed company. Having people in distributed time zones is also an advantage because the company is always on and working around the clock. Do you use third party testing or evaluation services when hiring remote workers? We can recruit people anywhere, and can be more flexible with hours and schedules. Remote work is vital to our business model, because our company caters to remote teams. We are building a complex digital product and want to implement this aim for digital transformation in all processes, which of course includes how we work. How do you personally manage work-life balance? Very. It lets us find the best people for the roles we have. The ability to work remotely is extremely important to our business model. Having employees across time zones and with a more flexible working model also helps us respond to volumes and be there for our customers when they need us. This is of huge value. From a company culture perspective, remote work is also one of the most important parts of running our business. Building what we build, it would be impossible to tell our people they cant live wherever they want to live either in shorter spurts or longer stretches of time. It enables us to hire only the best. We demonstrate every day how to be time efficient and successfully blend work and life. Its vital. I think having a remote team early on forced us to create clear communication and process structure early on which later allowed our company to scale very quickly nationwide. Hiring the best we arent just limited to the best people we can hire who are also located within a 30 mile radius of our office. When we design a process or a policy for working together, our default assumption has to be that we will be remote. Without remote being an option, our partners would be settling for less quality with their development. For us, remote work does not mean outsourcing, which is typically an attempted arbitrage of costs. We never have to try to convince the right person to move somewhere he or she doesnt want to. First, we can source the right talent from anywhere in the nation; we arent restricted to the over-tapped and overpriced markets of San Francisco and New York. Weve been remote from the beginning. If we preach the benefits of location independent lifestyle, we have to make sure were equipped to embed top talent from wherever they choose to be. First, it lets us focus on the work. TOK.tv is a liquid company: working remotely is in our DNA. Growing the team remotely has given us quite a few advantages. We can find talent all over the world. Heres an anecdote to illustrate: Wordfence is growing very quickly and over a year ago we were just a team of two. We want our forecasters to live where they forecast because local knowledge leads to more useful forecasts. Weve been able to recruit and keep employees who would not want to work in a traditional contact center environment, but love our company because of the freedom remote work allows. Our team works hard, but we are equally passionate about the hours we spend away from work with family and friends and pursuing our passions. What elements are key to successful working relationships with remote teams? We have also seen the clear benefit of happier, more productive employees through this model, and from an environmental standpoint, remote is a no brainer. Weve always been remote and consider our being remote to be one of our greatest strengths, both in terms of building a great team and also in doing great work for our clients. Second, our employee retention rate is outstanding. People make businesses and going remote is the only way for us to hire the best possible people. Buying in fully into remote and being aware of it I believe are preconditions to making remote work a success. And it is this that enables us to provide an authentic English learning experience for our students in China. Even as a small team we cover almost all timezones without any struggle. Our business model was specifically designed to work from home. It definitely has a huge influence on how we work, on our processes and conventions. Also, because Batchbook is a SaaS product, we are working with customers from all over the world. What were the main reasons to integrate remote work into your workforce? Being distributed allows us to spend less time recruiting and retaining talent. 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. We are a completely virtual team using our own software and practicing what we preach. 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 world. do what we do from a central location like an office, but we dont have to. Not having a headquarters means that remote work is in our culture. Certainly, if we went brick and mortar, wed still thrive, I believe. Our remote-first structure has truly allowed us to thrive as a business. Now we are 15 people in three continents with five different time zones. Thats huge in our space. It makes sense to tap into talent from all over the world rather than setting geographical boundaries. , not much, but to our business, it matters a whole lot. This is the most important factor for most of our current teachers who stay with us. They can work from anywhere and spend more time with their loved ones. We arbitrage opportunity and drive. In theory, we. Remote working is our business model. We all value working hard and enjoying life at the same time. By switching over to home offices and client sites, we are more able to be there for our clients 24/7 and truly understand their needs, which is directly related to our goal of creating great workplaces! Were not paying people to sit in a specific chair from 9-5 were paying them to get work done. They love being on a journey with us to optimise their time and squeeze every bit of joy out of their busy lives. We get the best of the best in new hires thanks to a completely global applicant pool. Essential. They are more productive and efficient that way. Did you switch to remote or start out that way? This is especially important as our business is global too, with customers in nearly every single country in the world. Its been critical to our success. This allows us to attract the worlds top talent while also reducing op-ex since we dont have offices, etc. Remote workers make up a sizeable chunk of our customers. At the core of what we do is help surface those places and spaces. 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 to build the best possible product. Working remotely is one important aspect that has to be considered here. The other is that its a great way to hire talent that lives further than an hour from your main office. Remote work is a genuine competitive advantage for Timely. If were going to hire the best talent within a niche skillset, at any kind of scale, we need to get outside the 50 mile radius around an office building. Remote work is fundamental to Scribendis business model. Take someone who is used to making a San Francisco-level salary but doesnt want to live there anymore, for example, and enable them to travel and work from anywhere. It means we can get the best person for the role, not the best person within a 100 mile radius. The remote work model is very compatible with a results-based management style. Location isnt a limiting factor when it comes to finding top talent. That means we get the flexibility of hiring the best person for any position regardless of where they are, which in turn means we can create a better product and grow a more successful business. This flexibility also means we are able to attract highly qualified Team Members who can flex their day around personal commitments. Remote work is critically embedded into our business model. Facilitating asynchronous communication within distributed teams is critical to our products success though, so it wouldve been much, much harder to build something that does this job to the same high standard if we didnt have first-hand experience on a daily basis with the problems involved in remote work. Remote work is extremely important to our business model. Its extremely important for a few reasons. Our platform allows for all employees to access information regardless of their location. When one of our first team members joined us he came from a brick and mortar software engineering role.