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- Articles & Posts
- Videos
- Books
- Job boards
- Housing
- Interviewing
- Events
- Newsletters
- Podcasts
- Companies with "remote DNA"
- Remote Moonlighting
- Q&A
- Communities
- Conferences
- Tools
- Law & Finance
- Others
- 10 Lessons from 4 Years Working Remotely at Automattic
- 10 Secrets to Becoming a Great Remote Developer
- 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker
- 5 Tricks to Get More Done While Working Remotely
- Acceptance of Telecommuting Project Management Grows
- Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers
- Bosses without borders: Essential tools for managing remote workers
- Calculate how much you could save by telecommuting to work
- Communication for Distributed Teams
- Death of the office and rise of the telecommuter
- For Some, Home=Office
- Give people the freedom of where to work
- Hiring Secrets Of A Distributed Company
- How GitHub Works
- How many companies are 100% distributed? (Research Summary)
- How many people really work from home? (research summary)
- How We Went Remote (archive.org video from OSCON 2014 presentation)
- How Working at Home Works (For Us)
- It’s Unclearly Defined, but Telecommuting Is Fast on the Rise
- Latest Telecommuting Statistics | Global Workplace Analytics
- Learning From Distributed Companies
- Managing a Geographically Dispersed Team: Achieving Your Goals Together, While Apart
- Michael Bloomberg agrees with Marissa Mayer on telecommuting
- My Ideal Day as a Remote Programmer: Taking Charge of Your Daily Routine
- One day offices will be a thing of the past
- Remote worker vs distributed team
- Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
- Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective
- Rethinking Agile in an office-less world
- Six Strategies for Managing Telecommuters
- Solo Workers Bond at Shared Workspaces
- Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
- The future of telecommuting: Corralling the Yahoos
- The Pros & Cons of Being a Remote Team (& How We Do It)
- To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home
- What is a Distributed Company?
- Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs
- Why Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo could backfire badly
- Why moonlighting will change your career
- Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged
- Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces
- Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
- 'Working From Home' Without Slacking Off
- Working Outside the Box: A Study of the Growing Momentum in Telework
- Working Remotely for Extroverts
- Yahoo, Best Buy, and Telecommuting: Advice From A Distributed Company
- Your Commute Is Killing You
- [21 tools that will help your remote team work better together] (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/06/tools-remote-teams/)
- How to run a team of people who never see each other
- Who Needs an Office? How to Go 100 Percent Remote.
- Remote Work: How to work the Precision Nutrition way
- How to suggest improvements remotely
- 8 tips that will make you a more active, healthier remote developer
- The 5 most important things we do as a remote company
- How to focus when working remotely
- http://x-team.com/2015/03/mistakes-remote-developers/
- Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK
- Remote. Office Not Required. (bibliography)
- The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work
- The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work (bibliography)
- Angel List Job Type -> Remote OK
- Authentic Jobs
- Careers Stackoverflow
- Dribbble Jobs
- Flexjobs
- Front-end Developer Jobs View as table, then sort by
performed
- Golangprojects filter -> Remote only
- Guru - (has MANY different categories outside software)
- Hasjob Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
- HN hiring filter REMOTE
- Landing.jobs filter -> Remote only
- Jobmote
- Jobspresso * High-quality remote positions that are open and legitimate *
- No Fluff Jobs filter -> "remote"
- Nomad Jobs
- Remote Coder
- Remote OK - scrapes many job board feeds for remote positions
- [RemoteWorkHunt] (http://www.remoteworkhunt.com/)
- Remotive Jobs
- Skip the Drive
- Virtual Vocations
- WFH.io
- Working Nomads
- Github Jobs - Location filter -> "Anywhere/Remote"
- We Work Remotely
- Offsite Careers
- whoishiring.io
- Workana Freelance Job Board in Spanish and Portuguese
- Remotely Awesome Jobs - Crawls multiple job boards for remote job postings.
- Worldpackers - Housing/work exchange
- Caravanserai - Global network of coliving spaces
- Nomad House - Global network of nomad housing
- The Blue House - Startup house & coliving space in Morocco
- Work From Bali - Coliving space in Bali
- Coworking in the Sun - Coliving & coworking space in Tenerife island in Spain
- bedndesk - Coworking & coliving space in Mallorca island in Spain
- Coworkation - Coworking & vacation in Colombia
- Nomad Pad - Global network of coliving spaces
- Working Retreat - Coliving space in Thailand
- NoHatDigital - Coliving space in Mexico
- Sun Desk - Coliving & coworking space in Taghazout, Morocco.
- Campus - Network of coliving spaces (Currently US only)
- Blackbox - Coliving space in Silicon Valley
- Hus24 - Coliving space in Sweden
- Nest Copenhagen - Coliving space in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- The Surf Office - Coworking & vacation space in Portugal, Canaries and California.
- 47RONIN - Coliving space in Kyoto, Japan.
- nomadicHUB - Coliving & coworking spaces in exotic locations.
- Sende - Coliving & coworking space in northern Spain.
- [HubBOG] (http://hubbog.com/) - Coworking Space + Startup Accelerator. Bogota, Colombia
- remoteinterview.io - Coding tests & pair programming interview tools
- Remote Year - Travel & work with interesting people for a year.
- deceler8 - 10 days retreat
- Coworking Camp - Worldwide temporary coworking Spaces.
- Project Getaway - 30 days retreat
- Working Nomads - job posts
- Remote Digest - job posts
- Remote Internships
- Remotive - productive remote workers - A weekly newsletter on Remote Tips & Jobs sent to 10,000+ Remote Workers
- Free People Move Podcast - mostly interviews with founders attacking the location independence / remote work space from different angles
- Home Work - A weekly advice podcast for people who work from home.
- Lessons from Distributed Companies
- Wide Teams - Each episode a one-on-one interview with a remote worker taking about workflow and practices
- Arkency - Rails and React.js experts, fully remote/async
- Articulate - EdTech. Makes software that helps teachers make e-learning courses. Ruby, Node, C#, and .NET for Windows app.
- Auth0 - Identity for developers
- Automattic - Makers of WordPress.com and Gravatar.
- Avallain - Education Technology and Digital Publishing. We have the tools and processes to achieve the positive impact on human potential that technology enhanced education can provide.
- BaseCamp - Project management software.
- Basho - Creators of Riak, an open source platform and k/v database. We code in Erlang and hang out on clouds. Everyone works remote and gets together a few times a year at HQ in Seattle.
- BeBanjo - Software as a service for managing video on-demand. Ruby / Rails, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq.
- Bluespark Labs - WebDev Consulting and makers of Roomify. Remote team with HQs in Raleigh, NC and Italy. Drupal.
- Buffer - Tools to help manage social media. PHP, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, Memcache, Backbone.js, React.js, Grunt.js, LESS, and Python.
- Canonical - Ubuntu.
- Catalyze - HIPAA-compliant cloud computing for healthcare. HQ in Madison, WI. Docker, Go, Python.
- Chef - We are all about IT automation for speed and awesomeness. Ruby, JavaScript & shell scripting. HQ in Seattle but we have employees all around US.
- CircleCI - Provides continuous integration tools and services.
- Close.io - CRM (python)
- Codeship - SaaS Continuous Delivery
- Collabora - Open source software-based consulting.
- Compose - Managing databases as a service. Distributed team with offices in San Meteo, CA and Birmingham, AL.
- Datadog - Easy to use and scalable monitoring systems for modern and dynamic infrastructure. Distributed team with offices in New York, Boston and Paris. Engineers based all around the world.
- DataStax - Consulting based on Apache Cassandra.
- DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers
- DuckDuckGo - Search engine.
- Envato - Maker of ThemeForest and other online marketplaces. MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Javascript. Distributed team with HQ in Melbourne, Australia.
- Etsy - Marketplace for artists. MySQL, Memcache, PHP. Offices in Dublin, Paris, San Francisco, New York, London and Melbourne.
- Eyeo - Maker of AdBlock Plus. Main office in Cologne, Germany.
- Fire Engine Red - SaaS for higher education. Maker of Fireworks.
- Fog Creek - NY-based software company. Makers of bug-tracking and source control tools. Workday must overlap New York afternoons (1700 - 2200 GMT)
- General Assembly - Physical and on-line education for technology, business, and design.
- Ghost - Publishing platform.
- Gitbook - Publishing toolchain based on git. Javascript, node.js, Go.
- GitHub
- GitLab - Competitor to GitHub.
- [GlueNetworks] (http://gluenetworks.com/) - Network automation company.
- Harvest - Time tracking software.
- Healthfinch - Making Healthcare systems more usable. HQ in Madison, WI, USA. Ruby, Javascript.
- Heap – Web & Mobile Analytics, 2 of our 8 teammates are remote.
- Heroku - PaaS Cloud, makes devs' experience awesome, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Golang, Python.
- Honeybadger - Ruby. 100% remote.
- Igalia - Open source consultancy. HQ in Spain.
- Inpsyde GmbH - WordPress Agency in Germany
- Khan Academy - EdTech. Non-profit focusing on K-12 STEM. Less, React, Flux, Backbone, jQuery, Python, Google App Engine, Swift, and Objective-C.
- LaterPay - The (micro)payment enabler. Munich, Germany. Python, JavaScript, AWS.
- Librato - Cloud Monitoring.
- Linaro - OpenSource Engineering on ARM.
- Lincoln Loop - WebDev shop.
- LivingSocial - Company-wide support for teams of experienced, remote developers. Lots of autonomy.
- Lullabot - Strategy, design and development using Drupal.
- Mapbox - Map integration tools for various platforms.
- Modern Tribe - A digital agency with a modern twist. All freelancers. All experts.
- Mozilla - Firefox.
- Netsparker - Web Application Security Scanner.
- Next Big Sound - Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry.
- NodeSource - NodeSource is dedicated to creating a sustainable ecosystem for Node.js.
- Onyo - Transforming the eating out experience in pure pleasure.
- OpenCraft - Open edX development (Free Software MOOC project)
- Parsely - Analytics solutions
- Particular Software (NServiceBus) - Enterprise Service Bus, Messaging, C#, Open Source
- Paylocity - HR and payroll solutions
- Precision Nutrition - Online Nutrition Coaching and Certification
- Railsdog - eCommerce solutions and integrations based on Spree (Ruby on Rails). Most team members are distributed including development, project management, and executive roles.
- RainforestQA - On demand QA as a service.
- Real HQ - Maker of Agent Pronto, software designed to help make home buying and selling a better experience. We've been remote since the start, now 50+ spread across the globe. Ruby, Rails, React.js, iOS/Android.
- RebelMouse - Social publishing platform. Python, JS & iOS/Android developers. All over the world team.
- Recurly - recurring billing management for subscription-based businesses
- Red Hat
- RightScale
- Scrapinghub
- Simple
- SoftwareMill
- StackExchange
- Soostone
- Sqwiggle
- Strongloop
- StyleSeat - we love high-impact remote engineers, collaboration, creativity, python, angularjs
- Surevine
- Surge - 100% remote consulting company working primarily in Node.JS, iOS, .NET, PHP, and Android
- Sysdig Cloud
- TED - Technology team supports ted.com and internal tools. All engineers are remote. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js
- Teamed.io
- Teleport
- Toggl
- Toptal
- Trello
- Twin Technologies
- Wikimedia
- X-Team - Work on incredible web and mobile projects, with extraordinary developers. Unleash your potential. From anywhere. We are X-Team.
- Zapier
- Gittask - Development tasks you can work on remotely
- StackExchange
- Workplace: telecommute
- Freelancing: remote / working from home
- Programmers: telecommuting / home
- Quora: Telecommuting and Working Remotely / Virtual Workplace / Working at Home
- /r/telecommuting - subreddit
- ##remotes - IRC channel (web access).
- Hacker Paradise - traveling hackers
- #nomads - Slack community for nomadic working, $100 signup fee
- Nomadler - Hacker News for nomads.
- DNX Global - Digital Nomad Conference.
- Yonder - A round table conference bringing together leaders of distributed companies.
- Appear.in browser-based, pluginless group video calls
- Bluejeans video conferencing app, great for large groups & live streams
- Codeshare.io browser-based mult-user live code sharing with optional video chat
- Fleep - Internal chat and collaboration tool for development teams
- Floobits remote pair programming with screen share. Integrates with Sublime, IntelliJ, Atom and others.
- Flowdock browser-based group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Jenkins etc.
- Hangout chat system, share desktop and video calls.
- Hipchat great internal chat for hackers.
- IRCCloud browser-based IRC client with permanent storage
- Precursor - Simple prototyping & brainstorming web app with real-time collaboration.
- ScreenHero - Real-time, HD screen sharing for collaboration in teams.
- Skype video calls.
- Slack chat system with loads of integration options
- Speak - Instant Team Communication: blazing fast audio, video and screen sharing inside your team
- Sqwiggle Online Collaboration Software for Remote and Virtual Teams.
- Talky — Truly simple video chat and screen sharing for groups.
- Trello - lean project boards.
- Asana - Project management good for distributed teams
- Pinitto.me - Lightweight realtime infinite virtual corkboard application (open source)
- Coffitivity - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better
- Teleport Sundial - Manage the locations and timezones of your distributed team
- Noisli - Noisli has a list of diferent ambient sounds that can be combined to boost creativity and focus
US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.
- LiquidSpace - Daily & Hourly Office & Meeting Room Rental.
- Nomad List - Compare cost and quality of living in different cities.
- Regus USA - Executive suites, virtual offices & conference room space.
- Remote Companies on Careers SO
- WorkFrom - Find coffee shops that are good to work from
- Hacker Spaces - list of hacker spaces