16 Biggest Firms Switching to Full-Time Remote Work

All of the major companies, from Amazon to PWC, have announced full-time remote work for their workers, which isn't surprising. Remote working is indeed the future. 

Remote working brings its own set of problems, but if big multinational corporations with tens of thousands of people can go entirely remote, it makes you wonder whether offices would be outdated in 2021.

Several workers have greeted this choice with open arms, excited to begin a new work-life that involves spending more time with family and friends, as well as finding time for their hobbies and interests.

Working women are the most enthusiastic, and why shouldn't they be? Women have never had more options than they have now thanks to remote employment. Several barriers have been breached, and they have all been for the better.

Let's take a look at some of the largest companies that have embraced remote and hybrid working this year:

Adobe

Adobe created remote work standards and rules, which were first implemented in the United States and will be rolled out internationally later this year. As they will learn and iterate on making this model effective, they plan to increase the number of their remote worker population over time.

Adobe based its choice to be hybrid on cross-departmental and cross-location focus groups, employee interviews, and employee surveys, according to the company. After all of this research, Adobe has decided that hybrid work is the greatest match for its employees, but it isn't ruling out the prospect of 100 percent remote work.

Amazon

Amazon will no longer call corporate staff back to work en masse in early January, instead of delegating choices to individual team leaders at the director level, according to CEO Andy Jassy in an internal email sent Monday morning.

This means that there will be no set number of days that corporate workers must work in the office. Other tech businesses, as well as business owners and community leaders in the communities where major tech companies are headquartered, keep a careful eye on these policy decisions when developing their own rules.

PWC

PwC, one of the Big Four accounting firms, has stated that it will allow around 40,000 U.S. employees to work remotely from anywhere in the continental United States in the future.

In a message to workers, PwC stated that the new policy is being offered to recruit and retain talent as well as become more diverse. PwC partners whose team members opt to come into the office on a regular basis will not be permitted to work entirely remotely. PwC employees who prefer to work online would be required to come into the office for in-person appointments such as key team meetings, client visits, and learning sessions a maximum of three times per month.

Atlassian

Atlassian, the $80 billion Australian IT behemoth, has stated that its staff would be able to work from anywhere, demonstrating their dedication to remote work even after the epidemic has forced it.

After the coronavirus-related shutdowns finish, Atlassian will continue to run its offices and workers can choose to work there, but it will extend its recruiting outside of its office locations.

Brex

Brex, a financial company located in San Francisco, is embracing the shift and has made the decision to become a permanent remote-first employer.

"Despite major hurdles inside and outside of Brex, many of us would agree that remote work has worked better than we imagined," Brex co-CEOs Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras write in a note to the company's 420 workers, adding that 64 percent of employees love working from home.

Coinbase

While many businesses saw the unprecedented work-from-home period as a temporary disturbance to their usual operations, Coinbase opted to become a remote-first firm in May 2020, only a few months after the epidemic began. They are more confident than ever, more than a year later, that they will never return to the way they used to operate.

Dropbox

The cloud-storage business stated on Tuesday that all workers would be able to work from home in the future. After an internal poll revealed that over 90% of Dropbox employees believed they were more productive at home, the company decided to make the change.

In March, Dropbox asked its staff to work from home to avoid the spread of COVID-19.

Dropbox Studios will be created by converting the existing real estate into flexible coworking spaces where workers may choose to work. These aren't designed for "solo work," but rather for team development and cooperation.

Novartis

In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan stated that the flexibility will allow the company to “reach talent pools we would not have been able to access in the past.”

Drugmakers, such as Novartis, confront a distinct difficulty than banks in that certain employee involved in the manufacturing of medications are unable to work from home. Office personnel who can work remotely have been compelled to do so at competitor Roche Holding AG to enhance the safety of individuals who don't have a choice.

ONVU Technologies

In February, the multinational information technology corporation declared that its entire workforce will be totally remote. In a statement, Human Resources Vice President Ragini Sidhu stated, "We feel confident in allowing our employees freedom in managing their time because of the level of faith we invest in them." "This trust is earned by creating a workforce that incorporates the human aspect and promotes a healthy work-life balance."

Quora

Beyond Covid-19, the Q&A website revealed in June that it had adopted a remote-first approach, with 60 percent of its staff choosing to work from home. Quora's Mountain View, California, headquarters will be converted into a co-working facility for staff, while CEO Adam D'Angelo has stated that he will only visit once a month. His sole stipulation is that all virtual meetings require employees to turn on their cameras.

Twitter

Except for those in occupations that require a physical presence, such as maintaining servers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said his staff might work from home "forever" in a forward-thinking, unprecedented declaration.

Companies required their workers to work from home as part of a necessary campaign to combat the spread of Covid-19. Remote work was a resounding success among both employees and business leaders as an unforeseen good result of coping with the epidemic.

Capital One

Capital One will transition to a hybrid work environment in the future. As a result, the vast majority of associates will spend part of their time in the office and part of their time working remotely. Fully-remote exceptions will also be supported.

Mondays and Fridays will be enterprise-wide virtual workdays, with workers working from home or wherever they like, according to Fairbank's memo. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Capital One offices will be completely open, and workers are urged to visit. However, employees will not be required to work at the office for a set number of days.

Facebook

According to an internal message from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company's remote work policy has been changed to allow all full-time workers to work from home even after the pandemic if their job requirements can be accomplished remotely.

From mid-June, all eligible employees will be able to request to work from home, though the tech giant has stated that it will adjust the salaries of employees who choose to relocate to less expensive cities and that those employees will still be encouraged to come to the office for team-building activities.

Hubspot

Employees of the customer relationship management software firm will have three alternatives starting in January 2021: work in the office, work from home, or adopt a hybrid approach. Those who opt for the hybrid model will only be required to work two days a week and will be assigned a "hotel desk." Once a year, all employees will have the option to modify their working arrangements. The company's target for 2021 is for 70% of job opportunities to be for location-agnostic positions.

Microsoft

According to an internal document obtained by The Verge, Microsoft will allow staff to work from home indefinitely, even after the COVID-19 epidemic is gone.

The message emphasizes the company's aim to establish a "hybrid workplace." Microsoft has stated that workers would be permitted to work from home for less than half of their working week, but that managers will be able to authorize permanent remote work if employees want it. Employees with consent from their boss will be permitted to work part-time hours.

Salesforce

Salesforce discovered that 80 percent of its employees desire to keep a physical workplace connection after conducting a poll. The software business declared in February that it will permanently transition to one of three working styles: entirely remote, office-based, or flex. The majority of Salesforce workers will follow this flex-policy, which means they will come into the office one to three days per week to collaborate with their colleagues, attend customer meetings, and give presentations.