The following is a list of remote companies. A fully remote company, or a

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, does not have a physical office where employees work and may have a mailbox as a headquarters locations. Their workers have the option of

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ing. Many fully remote companies employ workers in several

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s. Benefits of being fully remote are: not having to pay office rent, the ability to expand quickly, and not being constrained by location when hiring employees. A downside is that being physically together could help employees better communicate and come up with ideas. Another downside is that employees may feel secluded from their coworkers whom they do not see in person. This could cause them not to have compassion for each other. To build a sense of community, fully remote companies have held frequent meetups and retreats that last a week. Companies participating in the fully remote experience include those in the technology, e-commerce, and e-learning sectors. There are about 100 fully remote companies that employ 10 or more people.

GitLab GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package which can develop, secure, and operate software. The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer S ...

, a fully remote company that employees 1,100 people based in over 60 countries, is one of the largest all-remote companies.

Fully remote companies

The list includes only companies that have been noted by sources as being former or current fully remote companies: *

Andela Andela is a global job placement network for software developers. Andela focuses on sustainable careers, connecting technologists with long-term engagements, access to international roles, competitive compensation, and career coaching through the ...

Automattic Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). The co ...

Buffer Buffer may refer to: Science * Buffer gas, an inert or nonflammable gas * Buffer solution, a solution used to prevent changes in pH * Buffering agent, the weak acid or base in a buffer solution * Lysis buffer, in cell biology * Metal ion buffer * ...

DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms. It uses various APIs of o ...

Egenera Egenera, Inc. is a multinational cloud manager and data center infrastructure automation company with corporate headquarters in Boxborough, Massachusetts in the United States. It is a privately held company with approximately 110 employees. Found ...

Emsisoft Ltd. Emsisoft Ltd. (est. 2003) is a New Zealand-based anti-virus software distributed company. They are notable for decrypting ransomware attacks to restore data. History Emsisoft is an anti-malware and cybersecurity software and consulting compa ...

Ghost A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...

Help Scout Help Scout, legally Help Scout PBC, is a global remote company which is a provider of help desk software and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hubstaff Hubstaff is a remote company that created a workforce management software suite that offers proof of work, time-tracking software, and payroll management, along with a remote talent finder and project management software. Founded in 2012 by Dave ...

Lokalise Lokalise is a cloud-based localization and translation management system for agile teams. The company was founded in Riga, Latvia, and is a distributed company; all employees are remote workers. It has over 300 employees from over 25 countries ...

TheLadders.com Ladders, Inc. is a United States-based company providing career news, advice, and tools and an Recruitment, online job search service. Their search service only lists vetted job offers with annual salaries of $100,000 or more. History Ladders, or ...

Mapillary Mapillary is a service for sharing crowdsourced geotagged photos, developed by remote company Mapillary AB, based in Malmö, Sweden. Mapillary was launched in 2013 and acquired by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) in 2020. This is one of the ...

Product Hunt Product Hunt is an American website to share and discover new products. It was founded by Ryan Hoover in November 2013. Users submit products, which are listed in a linear format by day. The site includes a comments system and a voting system si ...

Shopify Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Shopify is the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. The Shopify platform offers online ret ...

Superside FIM Sidecar World Championship is the international sidecar racing championship. It is the only remaining original FIM road racing championship class that started in 1949. It was formerly named Superside when the sidecars moved from being part of ...

Toggl Toggl Track (formerly Toggl) is a time tracking software operated by Toggl OÜ, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, that offers online time tracking and reporting services through their website along with mobile and desktop applications. Toggl ...

Toptal Toptal is a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform, connecting businesses with software engineers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers. The company has no headquarters. History Taso Du Val and ...

Zapier Zapier is a product that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. The company is fully remote. As of 2021, it connects to more than 4,000 apps, with free and paid plans. Overview Zapier provides workflo ...

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