Best Work-From-Home Companies 2019
At one of my previous companies, I was part of a four person team where three of us worked from the office, and the fourth worked from home. Initially, I was envious of my work-from-home colleague. I pictured her lounging in her PJs all day, while I literally sat next to my boss, wondering whether he'd see me (or care) if I checked Facebook.
My envy quickly dissipated, however, when we started having more team meetings where engagement and participation were crucial.
When we had meetings, my work-from-home co-worker connected via Skype. Her head would float above us on a large TV screen, a reminder that we did indeed have a fourth team member. As she sat in her living room, watching miniature versions of the three of us laughing and tossing ideas around an over-sized conference table, she was more of a spectator than a participant. Unable to hear anyone who was more than a foot away from the mic, she often had to ask us to repeat what we'd said. Her own responses invariably came in delayed, or choppy.
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The moral of the story? Not all companies offering work-from-home roles are created equal. The added flexibility may sound like a blessing, but if the company isn't fully remote, or at the very least, experienced in and committed to supporting remote workers, you may end up feeling like my colleague - left out and overlooked.
Some of the companies below have fully remote teams, and others have a mix of work-from-home and in-office roles. Those in the latter category all have tried and true strategies for ensuring the old cliche "out of sight out of mind" doesn't apply to their remote workers. Most importantly, all 14 of these companies have roles that offer flexibility without skimping on professional development, compensation, or benefits.
Check out our best work at home companies below!
1. Zapier (Fully Remote Team)
What They Do
- Zapier helps people across the world automate the boring and tedious parts of their job by helping everyone connect the web applications they already use and love.
Why We Like Them
Their team is the essence of remote work - living and working across 15+ countries. They meet as a team during annual retreats and discuss everything from their hiring process to team dynamics to combatting unintentional bias. You can read more about their diversity and inclusion efforts here. Plus, they offer:
- Competitive salary (they don't use remote as an excuse to pay less!)
- Profit sharing
- 2 annual company retreats to awesome places
- 14 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Unlimited vacation policy (2 weeks REQUIRED!)
Who They're Looking For
2. Dell (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Dell empowers countries, communities, customers, and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school, or anywhere in their world.
Why We Like Them
Dell's commitment to flexible work began in 2009, and since then they've proven that they trust their employees to handle how and where they work by giving them the autonomy to choose and the support to succeed. And they're dedicated to diversity and inclusion, participating in unconscious bias training and implementing a neurodiversity hiring program (just to highlight a couple of their commitments). Plus, they offer:
- Adoption assistance
- Caregiver support
- Parental leave
Who They're Looking For
- Everything from Software Engineers to Program Managers (see all their work-from-home jobs here.)
3. DuckDuckGo (Fully Remote Team)
What They Do
- They're a mission driven organization working towards creating the world's most trusted search engine
Why We Like Them
They are a remote-first organization offering...
- Flexible work schedules
- Co-working office reimbursements
- A generous vacation policy (their CEO took 5 weeks last year!)
- Annual company and team meet-ups
- Equal and transparent salaries
4. Avaaz (Fully Remote Team)
What They Do
- Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks of life to take action on pressing global, regional and national issues, from corruption and poverty to conflict and climate change.
Why We Like Them
Our cofounder Milena Berry used to be Avaaz's CTO -- she can vouch first-hand for how inclusive and multi-lingual (17 languages and counting!) they are. Plus, they offer:
- Sustainable salaries
- Excellent work-life balance
Who They're Looking For
5. Intuit (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Intuit powers prosperity across the world with their flagship products - TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint.
Why We Like Them
Women make up 29% of Intuit's global tech workforce (putting them ahead of the industry norm), but their goal is full gender parity. In their words, "Diversity and inclusion isn't just something we do. It's part of who we are." In addition to flexible work arrangements, they offer:
- Medical and life insurance
- Fitness incentives
- Caring for kids programs
Who They're Looking For
6. Blockstack (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Blockstack is a decentralized computing platform. It's the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale.
Why We Like Them
Their flexible work culture isn't limited to work-from-home roles. They encourage employees to work when it's best for them. Plus, they offer:
- Premium healthcare
- A positive work culture centered on humility, ownership, and collaboration
Who They're Looking For
7. YouCanBookMe (Fully Remote Team)
What They Do
- YouCanBookMe is one of the fastest growing scheduling tools in the world
Why We Like Them
They're a fully remote company that values transparency, choosing to share all salary and revenue info (see ya later, pay gap!). They don't want their employees to feel overworked, stressed out, or boxed in by an office. To do that, they offer:
- Private health and dental insurance
- 25-30 days of PTO
- Profit sharing after 2 years
Who They're Looking For
8. Logikcull (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Logikcull's secure, cloud-based solution helps law firms and organizations of all sizes solve the expensive, complex, and risky challenges associated with eDiscovery, internal investigations, and open records response.
Why We Like Them
They've fully embraced a remote-work culture and their development team is located across the US, UK, and Canada. Plus, they offer:
- 99% healthcare coverage (for employees and their dependents)
- $250 fringe benefit that is automatically added to employees' paychecks each month
- Open vacations
- All remote employees get $56/week to buy lunch!
- Paid parental leave
Who They're Looking For
9. Help Scout (Fully Remote Team)
- Help Scout empowers support teams to put customers first
Why We Like Them
They're a remote-first company with about 50 people in 32 cities all over the world. Their team members have diverse backgrounds and are united by an enthusiasm for great products and delightful customer experiences. Plus, they offer:
- Paid parental leave, including adoption
- Flexible vacation
- Personal development stipend
- International benefit stipend
Who They're Looking For
- Java Engineer, Sales Manager, and More!
10. Karat (Flexible - Work from wherever you like, or from their Seattle headquarters)
What They Do
- Karat is on a mission to engineer a better technical interview, and assess the world's talent.
Why We Like Them
Part of their mission is to remove bias from the hiring process. Plus, they want you to work from wherever you work best and will pay for the equipment you need to make that a reality. They also offer:
- Meaningful equity
- 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited time off
Who They're Looking For
11. Manifold (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Their marketplace connects applications, wherever they are hosted, to independent cloud services made by developers who care.
Why We Like Them
A self-described "remote-reliant" team, they know how to communicate across borders and help remote workers do their best work by providing generous home-office allowances + a laptop and large monitor. They also offer:
- Flexible working hours
- 15 days of vacation during your first year
- PLUS the whole company takes the last week of the year off
- $2,000 professional development allowance
Sound good? See what Nicole - one of Manifold's front-end engineers who was hired off of PowerToFly - has to say!
Who They're Looking For
12. RebelMouse (Fully Remote Team)
What They Do
- RebelMouse is a revolutionary new all-in-one platform for supercharging content, growing audiences and building loyal and lasting communities.
Why We Like Them
RebelMouse's leadership takes flexibility and diversity seriously. Their founder and CEO, Andrea Breanna, is gender fluid and sets the tone to provide a safe, positive, and loving environment.
Who They're Looking For
13. Paylocity (Mixture of Work-From-Home and In-Office Roles)
What They Do
- Paylocity provides cloud-based payroll and human capital management (HCM) software solutions.
Why We Like Them
They have a "talent anywhere" philosophy and over 60% of their Tech workforce is remote. They have all of the tools necessary to be successful working from the office (even office workers work from home twice a week) or working from home. Plus, they offer:
- Paid parental leave
- Training budget for ongoing learning
Who They're Looking For
14. Mastercard (Flexibility to work from home in certain roles)
What They Do
- Mastercard operates the world's fastest payment processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories.
Why We Like Them
Unlike many of their finance peers, Mastercard offers significant work-from-home flexibility, and nearly 50% of their workforce is allowed to work from home. And they take pride in fostering an inclusive environment. Plus, they offer:
- Paid Parental Leave (Up To 8 Weeks In The U.S.)
- Adoption Assistance
- Family Care Resources
- Financial Wellness Programs
- Transgender Surgery For U.S. Medical Plans
- Financial Assistance for Education
Who They're Looking For
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P.S. PowerToFly is also fully remote, and we're hiring! We think we're pretty great, but we're not quite narcissistic enough to include ourselves on our own "best companies" list ;)
And for a full list of our remote hiring partners, check out our remote job board.
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How These Companies Are Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As we reflect on recent events and how they fit into a much larger history of discrimination, we're also taking time to celebrate and acknowledge the many achievements of the AAPI community.
We asked several of our partner companies what they're doing to honor AAPI Heritage Month at work, and we were inspired by the range of responses, covering everything from campaigns to #StopAsianHate to educational events on AAPI history.
Here's what they're doing, in their own words:
Empowering authenticity - LogMeIn
"Our theme this year is AIM to Be Real. We are embracing our new company values and celebrating those who bring their authentic selves to work, who help create space to celebrate diversity of thought, and who give back to the API community. Our Asian ERG, Asians in Motion (AIM), is hosting several events: a discussion about bringing your authentic self to work with Jerry Won (Dear Asian Americans podcast); a refugee-led virtual cooking class; ERG Movie Club discussions featuring Bollywood films, and a virtual volunteer event where we will offer career development mentoring for young women across Asia."
Learn more about LogMeIn here.
Educating on current events — Raytheon Technologies
"Raytheon Technologies is honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with an enterprise-wide global town hall event – Real Talk: Building CommUNITY Together. Organized by the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) employee resource groups across the company, employees will share their personal experiences and discuss ways to support Asian American Pacific Islander communities. The event will also feature prominent leading advocates from renowned civil rights organizations to provide insight into the national context surrounding recent events. We will also feature AAPI employees internally and on our social media channels."
Learn more about Raytheon Technologies here.
Encouraging awareness, growth, and learning — Moody's
"Moody's is encouraging awareness, growth, and learning during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the following activities, led by our Multicultural Business Resource Group and DE&I team:
- Weekly newsletters featuring AAPI employee profiles and cultural resources
- Video screening and small-group discussions supporting #StopAsianHate
- Cultural panel discussion featuring employee stories
- Professional development activities
- External speakers speaking about Asian leadership"
Supporting professional development — Freddie Mac
"Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Freddie Mac – Together, We Are Stronger
Freddie Mac supports the professional development of Asian and Pacific Islander employees while promoting an increased awareness of the value they bring to the organization and our local communities. Our InspirASIAN Business Resource Group is hosting various activities throughout the month such as:
- Personal development session on empowerment led by a coach from our Employee Assistance Program.
- "Stop Asian Hate" lunch and learn geared toward discussing the hurdles facing the AAPI community.
- Fireside chat about racial injustice with leaders from our InspirASIAN and ARISE (employees of the African diaspora) BRGs."
Fostering inclusion, learning, and belonging – Nestlé USA
"At Nestlé USA, the Pan Asian Network (PAN), one of our many employee resource groups that support our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives, will host a variety of events to honor and acknowledge Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. These activities will foster greater inclusion, enhanced learning, and belonging for the AAPI community. PAN will highlight women's development in Asian cultures, Asian leadership and what their culture means to them, culinary innovation of Asian cuisine, intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and Pan Asian community, as well as an enhanced learning watch party of the PBS movie 'Asian American.'"
Learn more about Nestlé USA here.
Promoting cultural literacy – Relativity
The Community Resource Group at Relativity
"For Relativity, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is an opportune time to not only celebrate the rich AAPI cultures represented within our company, but to also foster awareness and allyship amidst the current rise of AAPI hate. RelAsians, our internal community resource group, has organized a few activities for May: a book club focused on AAPI heritage—because we feel it's never too early to gain cultural literacy, a weekly spotlight on AAPI Relativians, and a virtual event that takes attendees on a tour through an Asian grocery store, introducing native vegetables and staple ingredients for traditional home-cooked Asian recipes."
- Contribution from Neha Pant, Sr. Performance Engineer & Angie Ocasek, Sr. Specialist, Partner Enablement – Co-Chairs of the RelAsians Community Resource Group at Relativity
Learn more about Relativity here.
Creating transformative experiences – Facebook
"At Facebook, our APIs employee resource group's mission is to create transformative experiences for all APIs at Facebook, Inc through key cultural awareness and engagement highlighting the API community. To kick off APIHM, we will host a series of events and conversations for the community and its allies designed to support the API community around the theme, The SUM of Us, including:
- Letting Others In: a mindful discussion series that privileges intersectional voices, storytelling, feedback, and vulnerability as tools for building empathy and inclusion amongst organizations.
- Racial Healing Learning Session: specific to the API Experience focused on naming of experiences and emotional responses, understanding the body's responses to racial trauma, what the audience can do in the moment for self-care, and long-term strategies to overcome the effect of the traumatic experience.
- Bystander Training/self Defense Workshop"
Learn more about Facebook here.
Extensive and exciting programming — 2U
"At 2U, Inc. we'll be honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with extensive and exciting programming coordinated by our employee-led Asian Pacific Islander Network (APIN). In a year marred by exceptional challenges APIN has centered activities around the ameliorating themes of joy, culture and wellness. Be it delighting in a ukulele mini concert, reading an interview highlighting an API coworker, winding down after too much screen time with a somatic healing session or engaging in a panel discussion with API tattoo artists, we have a packed month ahead with opportunities to support oneself and the API culture! Follow along @Lifeat2U on Instagram for more!"
Learn more about 2U here.
Amplifying voices and educating others – Smartsheet
"During APAHM, the API at Smartsheet community will be hosting several events and activities to educate others, amplify AAPI voices, and celebrate the AAPI community! We plan to kick off the month with a documentary viewing and discussion to learn about AAPI history, and hope to share personal stories from our AAPI employees throughout the month. We'll end with an opportunity for the community to celebrate itself by gathering together for fun and games, while eating food from local Asian-owned restaurants."
Learn more about Smartsheet here.
Rising together in sports and culture – NBA
"For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, APEX is proud to present a multitude of celebratory activities, headlined by an NBA Family Virtual Town Hall and, with the NFL and MLB, an Asians in Sports & Culture Symposium themed "Together We Rise" featuring prominent Asian personalities from the sports world. We are also launching a PSA with an NBA star, honoring Eid-al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, offering a bystander intervention training led by AAJC, and – because the celebration wouldn't be complete without food – hosting a sushi making class for our members."
Learn more about the NBA here.
Creating courageous conversations – Commvault
"This May, we are celebrating all our Asian/Pacific Islander employees, not just Asian Americans. We will spend the month learning about and celebrating the diverse cultures of Asia through weekly events and activities led by our Multi-Culture ERG. Vaulters and external guests will teach us the history of practices such as yoga, origami, and Asian cuisines. We will also discuss topics like the rise of hate crimes against Asian people and the recent spike in COVID-19 in India. These activities and courageous conversations will engage our workforce and create support for our Asian and Pacific Islander communities around the world."
Learn more about Commvault here.
Honoring history through virtual events – Collins Aerospace
"Collins Aerospace supports our AAPI colleagues not only in May, but all year. Our parent company Raytheon Technologies hosted a virtual Town Hall last month to provide a safe space for open dialogue about recent events targeting Asian Americans in the U.S. In addition to this entity-wide event, our Asia Pacific ERG at Collins is hosting events that educate and honor the importance of Asian Pacific American history such as virtual Lunch & Tours spotlighting South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, and India; and Thoughts & Support sessions. Site-specific events include virtual cooking class, and viewing PBS docuseries Asian Americans."
Learn more about Collins Aerospace here.
Highlighting new perspectives – MongoDB
"MongoDB will share daily historical facts, highlights of Asian American pioneers, and perspectives from our AAPI employees in a dedicated Slack channel. We will also be providing access to an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month webinar, organizing a trivia night, and holding Processing Together sessions for our internal AAPI community due to recent hate crimes happening across the globe. These sessions are a safe space for employees to share their stories and sentiments of what it is like as an Asian American in America today. (Read MongoDB employee Monica Lu's story about being an Asian American woman in tech here.)"
Learn more about MongoDB here.
Spotlighting diverse communities – Bumble
"At Bumble, moments like heritage month celebrations are often our anchor to ensure we are spotlighting diverse communities. In alignment with AAPI Heritage Month in May, Bumble is rolling out a series of thoughtful programming to encourage internal education and around how to support the Stop Asian Hate movement and better serve the Asian community globally. The lineup of initiatives include:
- BuzzWord DEI Discussion Series with featured guest speakers: This conversation will focus on the Asian community within the context of larger cultural issues such as dating app experiences, fetishization, masculinity, and representation.
- Bumble will be inviting employees to join a virtual Vietnamese coffee-making class. Created in partnership with Phin Bar, an urban brew-bar that offers Vietnamese-style steeped coffee combined with house-made ingredients, Bumble hopes to facilitate a deeper cultural learning and community bonding experience for the team.
- Bumble will also be activating channels across social media and our product to educate our community about bystander intervention and raise awareness around the importance of supporting the Stop Asian Hate movement."
Engaging in daring conversations – Procore
"In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in May, Procore recently organized an internal event to recognize and support the AAPI community. The event was hosted as part of our ongoing internal speaker series, 'Daring Conversations & Allyship,' to create space for an open dialogue around diversity, inclusion, and belonging. All employees were invited to tune in as employees from our AAPI communities shared their unique experiences, addressed anti-Asian hate, and discussed actionable ways to support our AAPI community."
Learn more about Procore here.
Taking action to foster change – SeatGeek
"This month the POC ERG will be meeting and hosting different activities to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This includes creating a safe space to discuss current events, and what actions our communities can take to foster change, sending out a newsletter which will highlight the Asian community in every aspect, and lastly, we will be hosting a guest speaker.
We hope with these planned activities and meetings, we can highlight, and uplift the Asian/Pacific American community, as well as bring awareness to the horrible ongoing attacks they are facing."
Learn more about SeatGeek here.
Uplifting and inspiring the community – Okta
"Okta's People of Color (POC@Okta) ERG is planning to commemorate AAPI Month with a series of fireside chats and iconographical facts posted internally in the #poc and #all diversity Slack channels! These chats will feature Dion Lim of ABC7 News and Comedian/Actor, Ronny Chieng. We will conclude the series with a partnership with Pride@Okta featuring supermodel, TED speaker, and transgender advocate Geena Rocero. The goal of this series is to educate, uplift, support, and inspire! The Okta leadership supports its AAPI employees, customers, and community."
Learn more about Okta here.
Empowering cultural diversity and leadership – Quip
"Salesforce will be celebrating through multiple virtual events, such as a leadership panel on the power of cultural diversity, a tea tasting, a tai chi class, a haka workshop, and more! Members of the Quip team have also compiled an extensive list of resources to support AAPI communities, including ways to donate, take action, and learn more."
Learn more about Quip here.
Focusing on lived experiences – Mindbody
"The Mindbody United ERG focuses on a different heritage or history each month, with May devoted to Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This ERG seeks to provide a platform to both celebrate and learn together. This will manifest in two ways: As a newsletter and a Zoom meeting. The newsletter will feature contributions directly from team members, while the meeting will feature Assembly member Evan Low as our speaker. It is our goal to focus on the lived experiences of the AAPI community, address discrimination, and how to chase after the part of the world we can make better."
Learn more about Mindbody here.
Promoting harmony and unity – T. Rowe Price
"T. Rowe Price is aware and appalled at the recent spike in hate crimes against the Asian community. In response, the firm will center Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month efforts around harmony and unity, in alignment with the Hawaiian value, Lōkahi – Forward as One. To share best practices, successes and areas of opportunities, T. Rowe Price will co-host a Leadership Panel on Asian Leadership Challenges with Baltimore Asian Connect, a consortium of Asian business resource group leaders at local corporations. The firm will also host a book club and restorative listening circles for Asian American associates and their allies."
Learn more about T. Rowe Price here.
Celebrating Asians globally
"May is Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. Although traditionally a US celebration, at Autodesk we are celebrating Asians globally. The Autodesk Asian Network is hosting Innovative Leaders, including Lori Mukoyama and Jonathan Zee. Lori Mukoyama is redefining experience-driven design globally at Gensler. Jonathan Zee has an extensive portfolio of buildings that are helping to shape cities around the world at Goettsch Partners. Lori and her husband Jonathan combine design, architecture and engineering in their work while simultaneously manage a family together during this pandemic. This event is hosted by AAN, as part of a monthlong series of APA Heritage Month events."
Learn more about AutoDesk here.
Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace
This document is a follow-up guide to a conversation PowerToFly held in August 2021 with Managers, HR Professional, and Organization Leaders about Supporting Neurodiversity in the Workplace, and its purpose is to continue the conversation and give actionable steps toward inclusion. We will be focusing on ways to create an inclusive hiring process —from application to interviews—and how to support and empower neurodivergent employees at work.
This guide is broken into four parts:
- Neurodiversity explained: helpful definitions and vocabulary that will help you more accurately speak about neurodiversity in the workplace.
- Types of neurodiversity: details about different neurocognative conditions, and the strengths they present, as well as the struggles that individuals with each condition may face in the workplace.
- Accommodating neurodiversity: advice on best practices when it comes to hiring, retaining, and evaluating neurodiverse talent.
- Reflection and resources: questions that will help you reflect on your organization's inclusion practices and additional references on the topic.
Download the full guide here or check out a preview below:
