Amazon, Dell, Shopify among the 100 best companies for remote work in 2021

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Although FlexJobs has been producing a list of the 100 top companies to watch for remote jobs since 2014, this list has garnered greater interest in 2021. That is due to the number of remote workers expanding exponentially throughout the past year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ever since, many businesses are reporting that the vast majority of their workforce is now virtual while other organizations have started hiring remote workers en mass for the first time.

Sara Sutton, FlexJobs’ CEO and founder, said that the COVID-19 virus has “permanently reshaped the workplace and how, when and where people work,” resulting in business models that have been “forever disrupted.” However, she added that it is clear that so many of these workplaces have learned just how many benefits there are to having a predominantly virtual workforce.

Some of the benefits that they have enjoyed is the ability to recruit worldwide, not needing to spend money on office space, supplies and related costs and being able to receive just as much quality work as before. Brie Reynolds, who is FlexJobs’ career development manager, said that she hopes that companies that are newer to hiring remote workers stick with it once the pandemic has ended.

Employees are also enjoying several benefits related to now being remote workers in such high numbers. In particular, they have enjoyed greater flexibility, both in terms of geography – they can now live virtually anywhere in the world – and time-wise as many remote workers do not necessarily need to put in their work hours at specified times of the day or week.

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A number of the organizations on this list, which include Lionbridge, TTEC and LiveOps at the top and Amazon (21st), Dell Technologies (41st) and Shopify (49th) elsewhere, are in the process of deciding whether to make the switch to hiring predominantly virtual workers a permanent one.

Meanwhile, one example of a company that has made a substantial transition to a predominantly remote workforce is Supporting Strategies, which skyrocketed from not even being on this list a year ago to a placing of 17th in 2021.

FlexJobs added that the top fields for remote work in its 2021 list were computer & IT, medical & health and project management while its fastest-growing remote work fields were marketing, administrative and HR & recruiting.

This list was compiled after FlexJobs analyzed the remote jobs that were in its database in 2020 and determining which of the 57,000 companies that offered them listed the most that year. Included were positions that were described as 100% remote work as well as those that were listed as being remote just during the pandemic or remote on a partial basis.