Toptal Insights

As organizations turn to blended teams to achieve business goals, executives must demonstrate that freelancers are a valued element of their workforce. Jon Younger, founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative, explains how to create an effective employer brand for agile talent.

Going remote can be a big decision. Julia Stanaro, Manager of Enterprise Account Solutions at Toptal, shares her responses to the most common questions posed by executives about the value of remote work.

Alan Fiddes, Head of Projects at Toptal and a ThoughtWorks veteran with over ten years of experience managing distributed teams, explains how building and managing remote teams can create a major competitive advantage in today’s talent marketplace.

How can you build a healthy culture when your employees are far away? Mark Bosma, VP of Sales at Toptal, explores the cultural best practices that helped Toptal grow to hundreds of team members and nine-figure annual revenue—all in a 100% remote organization.

Deep expertise has never been more in demand—or harder to find. Jon Younger, founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative, examines how agile talent has reinvented the relationship between worker and workplace, enabling organizations to tap the global talent “cloud.”

Some of the world’s biggest companies are adopting remote work policies. Here’s how 10 of them stack up.

My small business providing criminal background checks was cruising along in 2007. We weren’t the biggest provider, but our reputation and sales had grown enough in the six years since our inception to let us compete in local and national markets.

The COVID-19 tragedy demonstrates our exposure to rare, high-impact events and offers lessons for the next disruptive occurrences. Standard business practices exacerbate these events—here’s how businesses can position themselves for positive, seamless responses in the future.

Deloitte conducted a survey among employees in the workforce and found a startling fact. More than half of millennials (56% to be exact) would consider leaving their employer if flexible working conditions aren’t made a priority within the next two years.

There is a solution to weathering this crisis. It just requires a pivot in your approach to hiring and getting work done.