Being remote-first has also helped Zillow improve its systems to drive conversations about performance and collaboration, ...

The Seattle-based company leaned into a work-from-home model early in the pandemic, allowing nearly 90% of its employees to work at least partially remote indefinitely.

Zillow’s CEO says it’s a remote-first company. Its office moves in the past five years prove that.

Zillow Group CEO Jeremy Wacksman. (Zillow Photo) Zillow Group is one of the most vocal cheerleaders of remote work, having shifted to its “Cloud HQ” model in the pandemic and touting the ...

Critically, hybrid work—which mandates some set number of in-person days per week or month—is a different beast than remote-first, which is the Zillow model.

Approximately 84% of Zillow’s 6,900 employees are fully remote, meaning they’re not associated with a permanent corporate office, and they aren’t required to be in office regularly.

IBM expects 80% of its employees to work in hybrid remote roles post-pandemic, Bloomberg reported. CEO Arvind Krishna also said IBM will likely scale back its office space significantly.

In April, employees were told they could work from home for the rest of 2020. During Zillow’s Q1 earnings call in May, Barton joked about the need for a home office.

Critically, hybrid work—which mandates some set number of in-person days per week or month—is a different beast than remote-first, which is the Zillow model. Annie Dean, head of Team Anywhere at ...