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Building a Remote Workforce

Thinking of taking your company remote and not sure where to start? Crossover began developing remote work solutions years before COVID-19 triggered the rest of the world to hastily follow. Learn from our expertise and best practice guides for a seamless transition.

A Game Changer: Fitbit for Remote Workers Improves Team Performance

How do you identify stars when your company is composed of remote workers? How can you motivate your remote team to strive for excellence? Can you train this far-flung team with inspiring work methods and processes? Crossover can. “Crossover gave me the tools to manage remote teams on a level I never imagined possible before. It is an ide...

A Game Changer: Fitbit for Remote Workers Improves Team Performance

A Time-Traveler's Guide to Asynchronous Work (+Cheat Sheet)

I’ve worked asynchronously for over ten years, with multiple teams distributed as far as New York City, Wellington and Reykjavík. Take it fr...

A Time-Traveler's Guide to Asynchronous Work (+Cheat Sheet)

An Open Letter To CEOs - You Will Not Lose Control By Going Remote

During the COVID pandemic, knowledge workers were forced to work remotely by their employers. Now, there is a massive push by organizations ...

An Open Letter To CEOs - You Will Not Lose Control By Going Remote

Companies Using a Global Remote Workforce

So it turns out a remote workforce isn’t as scary as it turns out for a lot of global companies. According to the recent Owl Lab State of Re...

Companies Using a Global Remote Workforce

Crossover Announces Silicon Valley HQ

Like other trailblazers in the tech community, we've realized that our teams hate the work-life balance of remote work and really want to ge...

Crossover Announces Silicon Valley HQ

Getting Over The Bell Curve

The Bell Curve (1994) made some broadly reasonable claims : There is such a thing as general aptitude, one can measure it, and folks with hi...

Getting Over The Bell Curve

Global Outsourcing: Why Cheap Labor is a Rookie Mistake

If you’re on the cusp of investing time, effort and resources into hiring remote workers abroad, with the intention of cost-cutting, hit the...

Global Outsourcing: Why Cheap Labor is a Rookie Mistake

Here’s why you should not manage developers using fear

Since December 2015, I have conducted over 300 one-on-one meetings with senior software engineers in about ten emerging markets. In this pos...

Here’s why you should not manage developers using fear

How Is Remote Work Changing The Workforce?

In 2020, the job market witnessed a historic shift due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Thanks to this shift, remote work is no longer a niche oppor...

How Is Remote Work Changing The Workforce?

How to Create High-Performing Teams

The best players don’t thrive in the wrong team. High-performing teams can make average players great. But the opposite is also true. One ba...

How to Create High-Performing Teams

How to perform deep-dives into your business — 5 Real-life examples

If your business is producing any amount of data more than 200 rows per week (and all businesses are), then you need to perform deep-dives f...

How to perform deep-dives into your business — 5 Real-life examples

How to Write a Great Job Description

Every company wants to hire the best candidates for their position, but in order to do so, you must first attract the top talent to even con...

How to Write a Great Job Description

Hybrid Hysteria: Which Hybrid Work Model is Best?

In 2023 alone, dozens of huge companies closed the door on full time remote working for their employees. Starbucks, Meta, Amazon, General Mo...

Hybrid Hysteria: Which Hybrid Work Model is Best?

Motivational Interviewing Cheat Sheet: for Renegade Recruiters

Why, you ask? Because it's the Bruce Wayne of recruitment strategies: unassuming on the surface, but sure to pack a punch when it comes to t...

Motivational Interviewing Cheat Sheet: for Renegade Recruiters

10 Ways Skills Based Assessment Beats Traditional Hiring

The traditional hiring process isn't working like it used to. In fact, The US Congressional Committee recently got together for a full commi...

10 Ways Skills Based Assessment Beats Traditional Hiring

15 Remote Collaboration Challenges (+How to Beat Them)

In this article, we'll peek into the labyrinth of remote collaboration challenges. Here are real-world examples, and solutions based on stat...

15 Remote Collaboration Challenges (+How to Beat Them)

3 Recruitment Strategies to Attract (and Retain) the Best Talent

Seemingly overnight, the global pandemic changed how, when, and where we work. Now we have seemingly almost emerged from the pandemic. emplo...

3 Recruitment Strategies to Attract (and Retain) the Best Talent

5 Keys to Motivated and Engaged Remote Teams

You’ve probably heard about all thebenefits of remote workfor employees and employers. Better work-life balance, less time spent in traffic,...

5 Keys to Motivated and Engaged Remote Teams

5 Types of Bad Remote Management (That You See Everywhere)

We’re going to diagnose 5 of the most symptomatic remote management styles, along with some top-notch industry advice that will help you cur...

5 Types of Bad Remote Management (That You See Everywhere)

How to Build a Remote Company Culture and Why It's Important

Building a healthy company culture is more important now than ever before. If you don’t believe us, take a look atsome basic numbers. 47%...

How to Build a Remote Company Culture and Why It's Important

Tips for Working With Teams in Different Time Zones

Due to the advantages remote work brings both companies and employees, its popularity is rising faster than ever before.And while having a r...

Tips for Working With Teams in Different Time Zones

Traditional Recruitment Is Failing Minorities: How to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Your Remote Workforce

Diversity in the workplace has been an issue in the corporate world for decades. Traditional recruitment seems to be the issue, often exclud...

Traditional Recruitment Is Failing Minorities: How to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in Your Remote Workforce

Recruitment Is A Waste Of Time (What To Do About It)

For years, human resource departments and hiring managers have followed the tried and tested recruitment process when hiring new employees. ...

Recruitment Is A Waste Of Time (What To Do About It)

Remote/Hybrid Work Policies at Fortune 500 Companies

Nearly every company on theFortune Global 500has remote positions available. While some remote positions are only available for specific job...

Remote/Hybrid Work Policies at Fortune 500 Companies

Remote Work Comes Out On Top

At Crossover, we always have believed in the power of remote and flexible work. Heck, we’ve been recruiting rockstars for purely remote role...

Remote Work Comes Out On Top

Remote Work is Here to Stay (What to Do Now)

It’s not a stretch to say that modern history will forever reference 2020 as a turning point. Just like the industrial revolution of the 18t...

Remote Work is Here to Stay (What to Do Now)

The Top 2 Reasons You Should Be Hiring Teams Instead of Individuals

Forget the “unicorn” — hiring a superstar or two won’t magically make your goals happen. That’s the problem with traditional hiring: it’s to...

The Top 2 Reasons You Should Be Hiring Teams Instead of Individuals

The Truth Behind the Top Myths About Remote Working

The last 12 months have seen more people than ever before working from home. Many initial detractors have been surprised to discover that it...

The Truth Behind the Top Myths About Remote Working

Time to Fill: Why Your Hiring Process Needs a Warp Zone

Today I’m talking about transforming your hiring operations by turning your time-to-fill metric into a warp zone. And what that will do for ...

Time to Fill: Why Your Hiring Process Needs a Warp Zone

Unlock recruiting tips guaranteed to save you money

We’re looking at the future of work, and it’s clear that the landscape is changing. The classic model of reviewing resumes isn’t working in ...

Unlock recruiting tips guaranteed to save you money

What is Your Remote Communication Style? (MBTI Clues)

By understanding the unique communication preferences of different MBTI personality types, remote managers can enhance their collaboration s...

What is Your Remote Communication Style? (MBTI Clues)

What the Heck is an Organization Builder, Anyway?

The past year has seen a global boom in remote work that shows no signs of abating. In fact, analysts predict a significant upswing in deman...

What the Heck is an Organization Builder, Anyway?

Why Hybrid Work Is Hell. Here's What CEOs Really Think

CEOs are finally getting what Crossover has always known. That remote work is the future of work and recently fashionable post COVID hybrid ...

Why Hybrid Work Is Hell. Here's What CEOs Really Think

Why The Best Developers Are No Longer In Silicon Valley

Ever since the 1980’s, Silicon Valley and northern California has been a magnet for software entrepreneurs looking for their own unicorn sto...

Why The Best Developers Are No Longer In Silicon Valley

Your Top 10 List of Asynchronous Tools (+Ranking)

We all know remote management can feel like herding cats through a field of laser pointers. That’s where your asynchronous communication too...

Your Top 10 List of Asynchronous Tools (+Ranking)