Automattic

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has proven remote work at scale since 2005—fifteen years before the pandemic made it mainstream. With 1,900 employees in 90-plus countries, its culture prioritizes asynchronous written communication over meetings, logging over 1.2 million internal comments annually on its P2 platform. Its decentralized decision-making empowers teams to ship features 30% faster than average, cementing its role as a pioneer in distributed work.