In early 2018, we released our fifth annual list of the “100 Top Companies for Remote Jobs.” And we asked the top recruiters and leaders of these companies to tell us why they hire remote workers.
FlexJobs releases this list every year to showcase which companies have made big commitments to remote work, and hired the most remote workers over the last year.
Leaders from Dell Technologies, Convergys, SYKES, Williams-Sonoma, VIPKid, Appen, and TTEC shared their thoughts on why their companies are so committed to remote work.
One clear trend stood out among their comments: these companies understand that remote work is a mutually beneficial arrangement between workers and companies.
Let’s review how these companies are recognized for remote hiring:
Each year for the past five years, we’ve analyzed the job posting data in the FlexJobs database, which contains flexible job histories for over 49,000 companies, to find the 100 companies that posted the most remote-friendly job openings throughout the last year.
Remote-friendly means the openings must offer some level of telecommuting (the levels on our site are 100%, mostly, some, or optional telecommuting).
Here are 25 top companies with remote jobs in 2018:
To view more information about each company, and see past job openings, click the company name.
- VIPKid
- Appen
- Conduent
- Rev
- Liveops
- TTEC
- Amazon
- Unlimited job posts
- Low, flat membership fee
- Access top-level remote advice
- Unlimited resume searches
- Reach the right candidates
- And so much more!
- SYKES
- Dell Technologies
- Working Solutions
- LanguageLine Solutions
- Kelly
- Intuit
- UnitedHealth Group
- Williams-Sonoma
- Convergys
- Aetna
- Cactus Communications
- Kaplan
- BroadPath
- Hilton
- Commonwealth of Virginia
- Leidos
- Robert Half International
- K12 (now Stride, Inc.)
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8 of the Top Companies for Remote Jobs Share Why They Hire Remote:
1. More Loyal and Engaged Employees
Dell Technologies’ Jennifer Newbill, Director Global Employment Brand
“There are several reasons for providing connected and flexible work options to our employees. From an attraction standpoint, we find that candidates are specifically seeking flexibility as a part of their search, while it also helps widen the talent pools for our recruiters and hiring leaders. We also find that our employees who indicate that they have flexibility in their current roles have a higher Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS). In summary, what is good for the employees can also be good for business.”
2. Expanding Outside the Brick-and-Mortar
Convergys’ Jillene Jensen, Senior Director Talent Acquisition
“Offering remote work options is so important to Convergys. We strive to extend fulfilling employment opportunities to communities outside of our brick-and-mortar footprint. We realize that extraordinary talent exists in all corners of our country, so it is important that we extend our reach and open doors in communities across the country.”
3. Finding Specialized Talent Beyond Geographic Boundaries
SYKES’ Jim Farnsworth, Executive Vice President and General Manager
“SYKESHome brings unmatched ability for delivering resources and talent to our clients. We make geography our ally and can go anywhere to find specialized talent, in tech, finance and healthcare, or whatever expertise is required, according to the needs of any particular client, and at whatever scale they desire. Freed from the limitations of who is available in a single community, we can draw from a continent-wide labor pool as needed. In fact, the labor pool for SYKESHome is not a pool at all—it’s a vast talent ocean, offering any variety of resources, enabling us to deliver excellent service to meet growing and evolving client needs.”
4. Getting into New Markets
Williams-Sonoma’s Craig Barnes, Senior Vice President Customer Care
“It gives us the flexibility to not only attract great talent that otherwise might not want to travel to a location, but it also allows us to expand our talent pool by getting us into markets all across the United States.”
5. Building a Mostly Remote Business
VIPKid’s Kevyn Klein, Director of Teacher Community
“VIPKid is honored to be ranked as FlexJobs’ global #1 company for remote jobs in 2018. VIPKid connects children in China (and 32 other countries) with the world’s best teachers for real-time, one-to-one online English immersion learning. A global education company, VIPKid’s mission is to inspire and empower every child for the future. VIPKid’s classes are conducted entirely online and remote work is essential to the VIPKid platform of connecting children in China with our super-talented teachers. Teaching with VIPKid is all about flexibility, connecting globally, and achieving your personal goals. VIPKid offers its teachers the flexibility of teaching when they want to teach and where they want to teach; we believe that flexibility makes teaching with VIPKid an especially attractive option.”
6. Diversifying the Workplace with Hard-to-Reach Hires
TTEC’s Michael Wellman, Chief People Officer
“By offering work-at-home opportunities, TTEC hires candidates including veterans transitioning back to civilian life, displaced workers, and students or parents who require a flexible schedule. As an integral and integrated part of our team, these associates get the same benefits, training, and supervision as associates at our physical locations,” said Michael Wellman, Chief People Officer, TTEC. “For our clients, @home enables businesses to quickly scale as they grow or expand to meet seasonal demands. Across the globe, we combine the same quality management, security, and operational excellence of our traditional customer experience center associates with the flexibility and cost structure our clients are seeking to meet the needs of an always-on, digitally driven customer experience market.”
7. Increasing Productivity Alongside Work-Life Balance
Kelly’s Jeff Christofis, Vice President for KellyConnect
“Kelly has always prided itself on being an innovative talent supply chain management partner with our clients,” said Jeff Christofis, Vice President, KellyConnect-Outsourcing and Consulting Group, Kelly. “Embracing the remote work environment has proven to be a highly effective approach to not only attracting talent, but allowing companies to achieve higher levels of productivity, and gain efficiencies while providing employees with greater work-life balance.”
8. Better Serving Clients’ Needs
Appen’s Kerri Reynolds, Senior Vice President Human Resources and Crowdsourcing
“At Appen, our client base includes 8 out of 10 of the largest technology companies in the world. To consistently meet the needs of our clients, we offer flexible hours, home-based work, and the unique opportunity to help improve the quality of web content. These opportunities are offered to a growing number of individuals across the globe who are seeking roles that allow them to supplement their income or accommodate life changes such as having children or going back to school. We are proud to be named by FlexJobs as one of the top 100 companies that offer remote jobs.”
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