Ping-pong tables, well-stocked canteens, and bring-your-dog-to-the-office days are benefits fewer employees care about anymore. In fact, having the liberty to work remotely holds even stronger weight than a paycheck, a fresh survey by Cultivated Culture confirmed.
The study, which polled more than 1,200 U.S. professionals across multiple industries, revealed that some 87% are actively prioritizing remote roles in their careers, and about a third are exclusively looking for remote work. Additionally, an estimated “58% of professionals said they’d take a pay cut to work remotely, highlighting a major shift in how people define career satisfaction,” Cultivated Culture shared in their State of Remote Jobs report.
Furthermore, approximately 47% of survey respondents ranked remote work as the most important factor in a new role, even placing it above compensation. These findings are hardly surprising, given recent FlexJobs research on the same issue.
FlexJobs took it a step further and analyzed professionals’ attitudes towards working from any location–not just working remotely from their home state. The results revealed similar sentiments: more than half of the 3,000 U.S. professionals surveyed would be happy to accept a pay cut in exchange for the option to work from anywhere, FlexJobs said.
Beyond salary decreases, professionals are also willing to sacrifice other employee benefits like “fewer chances for professional development (24%), forgoing company-sponsored health insurance (14%), increases in working hours (14%), retirement-focused company contributions (12%),” and ”decreased vacation days (12%).
So, if employers are still majoring on listing employee benefits like pizza Fridays and onsite gyms in their job adverts, they’re falling way behind and using outdated methods to attract candidates, because top-rated talent aren’t heading to these companies; they’re finding other employers who support their wellbeing holistically and who care about remote and flexible working.
5 Employers Hiring Work-From-Anywhere Jobs Right Now
Employers who highlight in-person company benefits will soon lose the skilled talent battle to competitors and other organizations like those listed below, who are currently (or have been known to recently) hiring remotely for work-from-anywhere jobs:
- AgencyAnalytics–they’re hiring for fully remote positions such as senior customer success manager, senior full-stack developer, and customer support specialist. These are fully remote roles in Canada and they make it clear that the salary is based on the Canadian employment market salary bands.
- AppFollow–they are a fully remote-first company with an office based in Helsinki if you wanted to come in; however for roles like their SDR (sales development representative) position, they are open to you working from any location in Europe and they have global team members spanning multiple countries including the USA.
- Ashby is an ATS platform and start-up that is hiring for high-salary roles across American and European time zones, which are quite broad flexible. Some of the positions they currently have posted on their careers page include product designer (North America, full-time remote, with $150k to $200k salary range plus equity options) and design engineer (paying up to $260k and offering unlimited PTO, professional development and education budget including conferences, and twelve weeks of fully paid family leave within the U.S., with this benefit being available to other countries as they continue rolling this benefit out).
- Chronosphere–has fully remote positions in marketing, BDR (business development representative) and technical engineering roles available in Europe and the United States.
- Motive–is a remote-first company with several open positions which are fully remote, in the United States, United Kingdom, and countries in Asia. These span departments such as accounting, strategy, data, customer success, sales (this has the greatest number of roles), finance, and product, amongst others.
Bear in mind that “work-from-anywhere” is subjective. For some employers, they can literally allow you to work from any country in the world. But for others, due to the nature of the roles they’re recruiting for, and because of HR regulations and privacy and data laws, this is practically impossible.
Therefore, as is the case for the companies listed above, work-from-anywhere means the flexibility to not need to work in one specific state or near a specific city to be close to the office. For many of the companies hiring above, you can work remotely anywhere in the United States, and also in Europe. You’d need to double-check the specific location requirements for each role once you’re certain that you’ve progressed through the application stages.
Browse through the career pages of these employers and add them to your target list of companies. Then, review their values and company culture, as promoted on their careers website, and take time to tailor your resume and application materials to ensure you highlight exactly what results you deliver, and how you are perfectly aligned with their vision, mission, and core values.
Remote Jobs FAQs
Where can I find companies hiring remotely?
Built In, FlexJobs, We Work Remotely, and even Y Combinator’s start-up job board have plenty of remote job listings for fully remote and hybrid roles.
What skills do I need for remote jobs?
Some of the most important skills you’d need to succeed in a remote role, which are in high demand today, include communication skills (especially digital communication), applied AI, active listening, presentation skills, self-motivation, organization, and time management, and other industry-specific skills which are relevant to remote-first industries like tech, finance, and law. You can also check out these 13 specific skills you can include in your resume for remote jobs in 2025.