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Ask HN: What companies are truly remote-first?

by procrastinatus on 6/26/20, 3:53 AM with 13 comments

What companies have committed to be truly remote-first (no hybrid-model companies or ones where leadership is non-remote)?

  • by 0x54MUR41 on 6/28/20, 3:07 AM

    There are GitLab, Automattic, Zapier, and Mozilla according to Amur Software [0]. They define the companies that are on the list with this method.

    > To qualify as a distributed company work must be done primarily online and in a remote-first, remote-friendly fashion. Periodic employee meet-ups or corporate retreats are okay, and having office location(s) is okay, but leadership and corporate decision-making cannot run out of a centralized face-to-face headquarters while some percentage of employees opt-in to working remotely.

    Recently, they released a new list of distributed companies for 2020 [1].

    [0]: https://www.amursoftware.com/blog/what-are-the-biggest-distr...

    [1]: https://www.amursoftware.com/biggest-distributed-companies

  • by scottporad on 6/26/20, 5:16 AM

    Automattic (aka Wordpress.com) was remote first since 2008, at least.

  • by dmlittle on 6/26/20, 6:49 AM

    Zapier, GitLab and Hashicorp are a few that come to mind. I believe Hashicorp even has a rule were for a given team you can't have 3 or more people in the same city.

  • by diehunde on 6/29/20, 5:46 PM

    I think Elastic (the company behind ElasticSearch).

  • by oldsj on 6/26/20, 7:18 PM

    Ad Hoc (Modern US Government Contractor) adhocteam.us

  • by johnjungles on 6/26/20, 11:47 AM

    Mattermost

  • by markholmes on 6/28/20, 1:21 AM

    You Need A Budget

  • by mjrbrennan on 6/27/20, 9:00 AM

    Discourse!

  • by atmosx on 6/26/20, 4:09 PM

    scrapinghub is fully remote.

  • by claudiug on 6/26/20, 7:58 PM

    basecamp

  • by sqs on 6/26/20, 1:54 PM