2024 Guide to Flexible Remote Work: Top Employers Ranked by Jobgether

Jan 18, 2024
2024 Guide to Flexible Remote Work: Top Employers Ranked by Jobgether

More and more talents want to work remotely, while many companies are implementing RTO policies. It leads to increased frustration on the market as remote positions now receive 7 times more applicants than hybrid or office-based. 

Jobgether, a global search engine for fully remote jobs,  analyzed 100,000+ companies globally and revealed the Top 100 Most Flexible Employers. hiring now for over 60,000 remote roles. This ranking is to help talents identify the best employers and work opportunities. 

The ranking includes likes of many Airbnb, Hubspot, Revolut, Deloitte,  Siemens, GitLab, Zendesk, Coursera, DropBox, Webflow, and Shopify.


Key insights:

  • Most Flexible Regions: the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
  • Globally, the United States leads with over 50% of the flexible job offers.
  • Top European Countries for Flexible Work: the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, and Spain are significant contributors.
  • Work from Anywhere: a rare but growing trend, only 2.55% of offers allowing complete location flexibility
  • 55% of the flexible jobs require a senior level of experience

 

Where are the most flexible job offers?

  1. United States
  2. Mexico
  3. United Kingdom
  4. Colombia
  5. Brazil
  6. Argentina
  7. Canada
  8. Poland
  9. Germany
  10. India
  11. Spain

 

Most sought-after roles in the flexible job market:

  1. Software Engineer
  2. Translator
  3. Backend Developer
  4. Web Developer
  5. Product Manager (Tech)
  6. Account Executive
  7. Frontend Developer
  8. Full Stack Engineer
  9. CSM - Customer Success Manager
  10. Data Engineer

 

If you want to have complete location flexibility and work from anywhere, these are the job roles you should target:

  1. Software Engineer
  2. Video Game Developer
  3. DevOps Engineer
  4. Engineering Manager
  5. Backend Developer
  6. UX Designer
  7. Web Developer
  8. Technical Project Manager
  9. Tech Lead
  10. Program Manager

 

Level of experience in flexible remote positions required: 

 

Experience

% of jobs

Senior (5-10 years)

55.17%

Mid-level (2-5 years)

37.30%

Expert & Leadership

(>10 years)

6.19%

Junior (1-2 years)

1.33%

 

Top 10 Most Flexible Startups Hiring in Europe:

  1. Temporal Technologies
  2. Torch
  3. Anima
  4. Previse
  5. Tulip Interfaces
  6. Sano Genetics
  7. Applied
  8. Confluent
  9. CEQUENS
  10. Reedsy



TOP-5 companies that have the most work from anywhere offers

 

Companies

Offers

% Offers

EX2 Outcoding

35

29.91%

chainlink labs

34

29.06%

TLM Partners

18

15.38%

10up

17

14.53%

Carrot Fertility

13

11.11%

Grand Total

117

 



Discover the independent ranking of the TOP 100 most flexible employers in 2023 from Jobgether. The ranking features remote-first and full remote companies with active job offers and evaluates the flexibility of their remote work policies.

 

The top 10 Most Flexible Big Employers that hire now are:

 

Company

Flex Score

Industry

OYSTER

92.0% 

Computer Software / SaaS

HUBSPOT

92.0% 

Computer Software / SaaS

BLOOMREACH

91.8% 

Computer Software / SaaS

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

90.5% 

Internet

SMARTRECRUITERS

89.8% 

Hrtech: Human Resources +

DIGITALOCEAN

89.5% 

Internet

AWIN

89.4% 

Madtech: Marketing + Advertising + Technology

DEEL

89.3% 

Fintech: Finance + Technology

GITLAB

89.1% 

Information Technology & Services

DEGREED

89.0% 

Edtech: Education + Technology

 

Methodology:

Utilizing Jobgether's Flex Score methodology, companies are evaluated based on their remote and flexible policies, considering 30 criteria across three pillars:

  • Where? Remote frequency and flexibility over the geographical area
  • When? Flexibility on working days, hours, 4-day week, holiday periods, and so on.
  • How? Type of contract offered, slashing, freelancing, etc.

We have included only the companies that have active job offers at the moment of publication of this ranking. 

The list contains only remote companies, employers that apply a hybrid approach aren't included.

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