$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)

Post by hello_moto » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

pawelk wrote: post #18

ng7j5d9 wrote: post #2

Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…

Toptal is profitable and 100% remote, not a single office anywhere. Not sure if largest, but quite big at ~500 employees.

Post by kyawzazaw » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

ng7j5d9 wrote: post #2

Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…

Post by machiaweliczny » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 5:37 PM UTC

iamcasen wrote: post #8

It really looks like this guy found his calling, good for him! I'm impressed his managed to keep his organization healthy with 700 remote employees, that takes some real business/management talent. In my own business, we are a remote team of 6 and we do pretty well. The way we've made it work so far is by doing very little collaboration, and instead opting to each have our own focus with little overlap. There are tim…

Post by johannes1234321 » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

teunispeters wrote: post #16

ng7j5d9 wrote: post #2

Not trying to be snarky, but because I think it'll be meaningful to executives: What's the largest profitable remote-only company? Sure, your Gitlabs, Elastics, Sonatypes, etc, are remote-only, but they're still in VC-funded, money-losing, growth mode, AFAIK. Are there profitable remote-only companies that a more conservative, maybe even non-tech company could look at to get a warm fuzzy rather than being able to dis…

I work for one Or at least one where remote-only is quite common. Side effect : I have no idea how many coworkers I have, just know the team I work with normally and a few outside. It's a tech company, but it's an manufacturing one. I think one of the important questions though is how does the hiring/firing and maintenance of relationships between employees (including management) be handled when face-to-face is over…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC