Remote First Companies: 8 Villains and 8 Heroes ????
Michelle Coulson
Helping You Land Your Next Remote Role Faster ?? Remote Job Academy Creator | Remote Work Coach & Strategist | Former Recruiter | Launching the BIGGEST & BEST REMOTE JOB FAIR May 2025 ??
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A survey by Slack found that only 12% of people want to be in the office full time. Despite this, many companies are forcing their employees to go back into the office. According to Doug Dennerline, CEO of Betterworks. “Organizations are guaranteed to lose great people, not only for lack of flexibility, but because many of the best employees moved out of expensive cities during the pandemic and won’t be moving back,” he explains. “With the right performance management technology in place, where productivity can reach optimal levels and the best talent can work from anywhere, there’s no reason employees should be forced to work from an office.”
Hear! hear!
So you’ve seen a job you like the sound of. It says remote and you match most of the requirements. Yay!
You adjust your CV, write a cover letter and then you start the application process only to find it says “required to attend meetings as and when required.”?
“AS AND WHEN REQUIRED”? What does that even mean? 1 day a week? 1 day a year? Are you supposed to guess? ??
This should never be described as remote, it’s ‘Hybrid’- simple as that.
I really don’t want to believe that companies intentionally mislead you, but after almost 3 years since remote work became normalized, surely they know that clarity is required here!
I’m here to reveal those companies doing remote first right and those doing it all wrong!
The ones doing it properly have crystal clear remote work policies and you don’t need to go digging around to find out if you need to be based in a certain location or if you’re going to be called to the office at any point.
These are companies like:
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Now those who have got it all wrong are either really vague and confusing or downright ignorant to the fact that people need more flexibility than ever before and force people to the office anyway.?
These are companies such as:
If you have any more heroes and villains to add to the list, please let us know!
And here are this week's remote jobs for you to check out ??
Stay rebellious,
Michelle
Helping You Land Your Next Remote Role Faster ?? Remote Job Academy Creator | Remote Work Coach & Strategist | Former Recruiter | Launching the BIGGEST & BEST REMOTE JOB FAIR May 2025 ??
2 年DuckDuckGo, Whereby Doist GitLab Chili Piper Canny komoot Remote - you guys made it to the heroes list!!
Thank you very much for this list, Michelle!
? Fractional Talent Acquisition Partner & Freelance Recruiter ? Digital Nomad Writing About Location Independent Family Life ? Contentment Creator ? Not a Coach
2 年That’s really the crux of things, right? Folks hear ‘work from anywhere’ and immediately assume that means working remotely. But ‘anywhere means ANYWHERE,’ including the office, for those so inclined. Problem is, for those who prefer the office, it’s not necessarily the physical office itself that makes them want to work there. It’s ‘the office,’ and all that comes with working in-person alongside their colleagues. The happening upon people in the kitchen and catching up over coffee, the happenstance of running into someone they haven’t met before, immediate access to individuals they want/need to collaborate with and/or the keepers of important information, or the possibility that they’ll get some impromptu facetime with a leader they don’t typically interact with. Basically, many of the exact things that other people hate about working in an office. I call it the organic matter, and for a lot of people, it really does matter. But it only happens when others are working on-site also, which is why people who genuinely like their ‘anywhere’ to be the office want others to choose the same thing and don’t balk at RTO policies. They don’t want to go to the office and then work as if they’re remote.