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10 Reasons Why Companies need to Go Remote-First Now

Chris Herd
2 min readApr 13, 2020

Remote work has accelerated by 10 years

Companies everywhere have experienced the benefits of remote work and shouldn’t go back to the office full-time. Those who transition to remote-first will dominate the next decade. Those who don’t will be replaced by companies who make the move first.

Here are 10 reasons why:

1. 💰 Cost-Efficient

Companies will save $22,000 a year per worker for each person they allow to work from home full-time. For 1,000 person companies, this will cut $22m a year from their expenses.

2. 🌍 Access Talent

Office-first companies can only hire the best person they can afford within a 30-mile radius of their office. Remote-first companies will hire the best person on the planet.

3. 😱 Retain Talent

Companies who refuse to give remote working opportunities to their workers will lose their most talented people to their fiercest competitors who will.

4. 🎨 Increase Diversity

Offices are great if you are a certain age, color, orientation, and gender. Remote working is great for everyone. Remote-first companies will…

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Chris Herd
Chris Herd

Written by Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌

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