609 Fully Remote Companies: The Database

This is an exhaustively researched list of fully remote companies (ones with no physical office locations). Read – and download – the 2024 report. At Buildremote, we maintain the biggest list of fully remote companies in the world (it’s just below). Right now, we have 609 fully remote companies spread across 42 countries, 85 industries, and eight employee headcount brackets.  Here’s a quick breakdown of…

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Fortune 500 Return To Office Tracker [Oct 2024]

In this database, we keep an updated list of every publicly stated “return to office” policy for the Fortune 500 (and compile the data at the top). Use the links below to jump to a section that interests you. You can download one of two datasets here. Or, navigate the free report using the table of contents here. RTO policy statistics RTO for the Fortune…

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60 Headquarters Have Left San Francisco Since 2020

Once the hub for tech companies in the world, San Francisco is now facing a wave of businesses leaving the Bay Area. An astonishing 35% of San Francisco’s workforce works primarily from home, according to a 2021 NBC Bay Area report. That’s the highest among all US cities where data was collected. And with workers staying home or moving out of San Francisco altogether, the…

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Every Major Company Reducing Office Space: 2020-2024

At Buildremote, we’ve reported a staggering amount of well-known companies that have implemented some form of permanent remote work. Next, we analyzed in-depth the true plans for the Fortune 100’s return to office. As of October 2024, only 10 of the Fortune 100 had declared a full return to the office for all employees. The others planned to never come back in full, come back…

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15 Countries With 4-Day Work Week Policies

This post was originally written on January 3, 2022. Every time a notable four-day work week country announcement comes out, we update the post. Most recently, this post was updated on October 5, 2024. Here are all of the countries with four-day weeks in some form. They’ve either 1) implemented a four-day work week law, 2) proposed a new bill, or 3) are trialing it…

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20 Biggest Four-Day Work Week Companies (Oct 2024)

During the Industrial Revolution, factory workers logged 80-100 hours per week. But in 1926, Henry Ford popularized the 40-hour work week after he found that working more barely yielded an increase in productivity. It was a breakthrough in how we work. But it was also nearly one hundred years ago. Just like how Henry Ford implemented the five-day work, today’s visionary companies have implemented four-day…

Dell Calls Sales Team Back To Office 5 Days Per Week

In a memo posted to Reddit (then covered by Business Insider, The Register, and more), Dell sales leadership called the sales team back into the office for five days per week with just three days’ notice. According to the Reddit poster, the memo went out of September 26 and the mandate starts on September 30. Here is everything you need to know about Dell’s return…

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Every Company Leaving California: 2020-2024

Arguably since the first agricultural revolution 10,000+ years ago, work has been tied to a fixed location. That location-based work – first a farm, then a manufacturing plant, then an office – created opportunity. Opportunity attracted workers (or new citizens). Therefore, we always formed cities, countries, and societies primarily through location-based opportunity. Go where the work is, as they say. For the first time in…

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Every Company Moving To Texas: 2020-2024

In this report, we highlight all of the companies moving to Texas from 2020 onward. This research by Buildremote compiles every public announcement by businesses stating that they’ve changed their headquarters to Texas. This report was published on September 18, 2023. It was updated on October 25, 2023, then on January 8, 2024, then on January 25, 2024, then on May 14, 2024, then on…

FlexiSpot C7 With Footrest: In-Depth Office Chair Review

Use the links below to jump to any section of this FlexiSpot’s C7 ergonomic mesh office chair, a high-quality ergonomic home office chair. Chair Info | Assembly | Features | Comfort | Design & Quality | Ergonomic Support   FlexiSpot C7 Mesh Ergonomic Chair Rating: 4.9 stars The FlexiSpot C7 is my fifth legitimate home office chair (I sat on some folding chairs early in my WFH…