Why hiring remote teams can be good
The most common question we get on sales calls for SoFetch is the fact that we are 100% remote. Most companies that we talk to warm up to this idea once they see our level of productivity matches or exceeds theirs. At that point, they feel comfortable.. once they start seeing results.
The in-house myth
Most of the time, organizations want their developer, or full-development team, to be in-house, simply because they think the communication will be better. This is either a misunderstanding or an outright myth. If the communication was good already, it wouldn’t matter if the team was sitting in the office or halfway around the world. What matters most, and what generates project success for most of the companies we work with, is our level of communication and project management we demonstrate while working on their platforms. Comprehensive communication, and the tools that make it happen, are what separate us from a lot of brick-and-mortar development agencies. Thorough communication throughout the development process directly contributes to our clients’ ROI.
Better focus = more productive
Hiring remote also gives you a bigger pool to choose from. Searching the entire US for Ruby developers that know healthcare platforms will yield much better results than just the Chicago area alone. Hiring local limits companies to talent directly surrounding them, while hiring developers located several hundred miles away may grant you access to extended knowledge, and a better process, leading you to a better product, oftentimes at a nicer pricepoint than a salaried employee. Much less, remote developers are comfortable. They aren’t stressed from their commute. Their office is almost always their ideal surrounding for solving complex problems. It makes them happy to be ‘at work.’ They can work peacefully, but connected. This means reasons to fall out of communication with the team, or the client, disappear.
What our customers learned
Limiting yourself to shopping in one town won’t land you with the best product, and judging by the amount of times we’ve come in to fix the locals’ work, you often don’t even end up with a product. There’s a reason remote work is only increasing (the American freelance workforce is sitting at 33%). The companies that are more open and proactive about hiring remote companies more often receive a competitive product. At the end of the day, communication and management of getting that project done is all that should matter. And that’s what we’ve been focused on since day one.
