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What are prominent examples for remote work besides 37Signals, Github and Automattic?

21st October 2013

My answer to What are prominent examples for remote work besides 37Signals, Github and Automattic? on Quora

Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) have a very impressive distributed team culture.

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