You’ve used to work in the office. With other people around you. When you needed to discuss something, you’d just walked to this person and started to talk.
It’s not that companies are remote or not. Not that simple! They’re rather on a scale between fully remote teams who have never had an office and co-located teams with a few remote employees. Most remote companies are somewhere in between.
Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider founded in 2013. Started by a group of four founders spread between Budapest and London, today more than half of the team works remotely.
Stanwood is a remote development agency with team members spread across 9 countries. They are one of the leading remote companies building the future of work.
Toggl Plan is a fully remote company with headquarters in Tallinn, Estonia. Bootstrapped and started as a side-product for internal use for the time tracking tool Toggl, they’re now a remote team with members working from 10 countries.
First, the marketing manager started to work remotely. Then the development team began to phase out the office. No people left in the building, they did the reasonable thing – closed it.
More and more companies are hiring their first remote team members and leading remote companies are open and friendly about sharing their experiences with them. There are services available to help your company to start working remotely.
