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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...

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 for employees to return to their cubicle farms...

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 Remote Work...

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 get back to the rigidity of office...

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 high general aptitude tend to...

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 post, I’m going to give a few tips for...

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 opportunity that only the most modern...

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 bad apple can spoil the whole bunch. Busy...

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 from time to time in...

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 consider applying for it...

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. employers are facing another challenge: one of the tightest...

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, more flexibility, less pollution, less money spent on office and...

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% of job seekers say the...

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 remote team has many pros, working with individuals...

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 excluding and overlooking minorities from the recruitment process....

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. Hours spent reviewing resumes and in interviews. It is the...

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 jobs, the number of full-time remote jobs 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 roles since 2014 - way ahead of the...

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 18th century or the more recent technological...

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 too focused on individuals. Conventional hiring methods don’t encourage...

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 has plenty of upsides. It's high...

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 today’s economy. Why? It isn’t consistent....

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 demand to work from home...

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 office policies ‘are the hell of half...

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 story and software engineers looking for big paychecks. It...