Waking up five minutes before office time, answering calls and interviewing candidates, staying in bed, and managing all your work chaos alongside the office job is a routine for most employers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and even after the pandemic, people want the same lifestyle in favor of working from home. On the other hand, many multinational companies, especially technology companies, have benefited from working from home and now offer their employers to carry out their tasks remotely. Here is a list of top companies that provide permanent or hybrid working models to their employees.
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MICROSOFT
Microsoft, the international technology giant famous for its electronic and personal computers, has announced that employees can now switch to permanent work-from-home with the consent of their managers. Managers are empowered to approve full-time, remote work for employees. However, roles that require employers to come into the office can take work from up to around 50% of their working week.
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ADOBE
Adobe, a software company that provides customer-focused web applications and content development solutions, has made it easier for employers to work by offering the option to work from home about half the time and in the office the rest of the time.
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APPLE
Apple, a company famous worldwide for its innovation, offers 100% remote working for some of its technical roles, which can quickly be done from home. The company even pays an additional USD 1000 bonus to cover teleworking needs, including for retail employees.
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AMAZON
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, recently revised its policy to offer more flexibility to its employees by allowing them to work from home indefinitely. In March, the organization let employees know it needed to return to an “office worker” culture. It backtracked at the end of spring this year, announcing that most corporate employees would be in the office no less than three days a week. Amazon is adding more flexibility to revise office plans and is passing on the possibility of returning to individual group work. The group will choose when and how regularly its members are in the office, if possible.
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TATA STEELS
India’s largest steel industry recently revised its policy and announced that employees now choose to work from home up to 365 days a year. This is called the “Agile Working Model.”
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DROPBOX
Dropbox allows individuals and businesses to synchronize files, share and collaborate on projects from anywhere, anytime. Dropbox will enable all employees to work from home at all times. In addition, existing office space will be transformed into Dropbox studios where people can work.
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FACEBOOK
Facebook is known as Meta and today has 2.6 billion monthly active users. In addition, it has been announced that employers can permanently work from home. According to the company’s announcement, “anyone whose duties can be performed remotely can request to work remotely.”
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HUBSPOT
HubSpot, a leading marketing and sales platform based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices worldwide, has offered employers three options: Work from home with an approved home office arrangement, two or fewer days a week, or result from the office three or more days a week. New employees must choose an option before their start date and will be able to change it once a year.
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QUORA
Who doesn’t know Quora? A platform founded in 2009 to ask questions and connect with people to share and increase knowledge in the world. It has introduced a remote working strategy, allowing almost all employees to work from home and move wherever they are legally employed. In addition, employees who choose to work for the company will be able to do so in its existing office, which will be converted into a co-working space.
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SALESFORCE
The American cloud computing software company, headquartered in San Francisco, offers employees three categories of flexible working. Salesforce has called the 9-to-5 workday dead and now gives employees three types of flexible working options: flexible working (one to three days a week in the office), fully remote working, and office-based working (for a small number of employees must be on-site four to five days a week).
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SHOPIFY
Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows small and medium-sized enterprises to build, organize and manage stores across multiple sales channels using a multi-channel, cloud-based commerce platform. Work-from-home plans.
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INDEED
A job seeker’s search for the ideal job is incomplete without using the Indeed platform. The job search giant ordered all 10,000 employees to work remotely permanently, even after the Covid19 pandemic, because it believes that employees can work equally productively from home and that flexible working options give us a better quality of life.
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TWITTER
Twitter, the world’s leading social networking platform, was one of the few companies to introduce the idea of permanent working from home. In an email from BuzzFeed News, Twitter told employees they could work from home “forever” if they wished.
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UPWORK
No one can deny the importance of freelance careers in the 21st century. And it is not wrong to say that freelancing is the future of work. Upwork is the world’s largest freelance marketplace, with 10 million registered freelancers, 4 million client organizations, and 2,500 skill categories. In addition, the organization is committed to a remote working approach, and all employees have the opportunity to work remotely.
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ZOOM VIDEO COMMUNICATION
The app that almost everyone uses to communicate with each other during a pandemic is Zoom Video. It was created in 2011 to revolutionize the way teams communicate. The company strategically combines remote working and working in the office.
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ROBINHOOD
Robinhood, an online brokerage company, has enabled most of its employees to work remotely permanently, making it the latest technology company to move away from an office approach. Robinhood’s future office of almost 3,400 employees is fully digital. Robinhood
announced on Wednesday that most of its 3,400 employees would continue working
remotely.
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GOOGLE
Everything you want to know can be at your fingertips with Google’s search engine. The company, which has nearly 150,028 employees, offers permanent work-from-home for 20% of its workforce. The rest may work from home occasionally and be in the office for 2 to 3 days if their work requires specialized equipment or direct contact with customers.
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LINKEDIN
A company’s search for the ideal candidate and a candidate’s search for the perfect job would not be complete without using LinkedIn. The US-based online service platform, which focuses on employment, is ahead of the competition by offering permanent work from home to most employees.
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SPOTIFY
The Swedish audio streaming and multimedia service provider shifted to a permanent flexible working model. The new employment approach gives the company’s 6,550 employees worldwide the option to work in an office, remotely, or in a co-working space, for which the company will pay a monthly fee. In addition, employees will have greater freedom to choose which city, town, or country to work in.
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SIEMENS
At the pandemic’s start, the global industrial engineering and electronics corporation announced permanent changes to its working model. From July 2020, 140,000 employees worldwide can work where they feel most productive. Two to three days a week can be spent working from home or in a co-working space.
