Top 10 Best Remote Work Companies

The company behind WordPress.com has been fully remote since 2005, proving distributed work at scale with 1,900 employees in 90-plus countries and a culture built on asynchronous written communication.

The automation platform has been remote-first since founding in 2011, offering a $10,000 de-location package to employees who leave expensive cities and investing heavily in async collaboration tooling.

The social media management company pioneered transparent salaries published publicly online and operates across 15 countries with a four-day workweek, radical openness, and no physical offices.

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson literally wrote the book on remote work and have operated their project management company remotely for over two decades while capping work hours at 40 per week.

CEO Tobi Lutke declared Shopify "digital by default" in 2020, converting offices into collaboration spaces and giving employees stipends to build home offices, saving $900 million in real estate costs.

The HR and payroll platform practices what it preaches with a globally distributed workforce, offering its own tools for compliant international hiring that helped the company reach a $12 billion valuation.

The makers of Todoist and Twist have been fully remote since 2007 with employees in 35 countries, championing calm asynchronous work and explicitly rejecting always-on chat culture.

The company behind Ubuntu Linux has operated with a globally distributed team since Mark Shuttleworth founded it in 2004, hosting biannual in-person sprints in different countries to maintain team bonds.

The design collaboration platform scaled to 800 fully remote employees and $100 million in ARR with no offices, proving that even design-heavy creative work thrives in distributed environments.