[phantom_oracle]

There's just one issue with the survey (although this is fucking brilliant!):

You should have first defined what "Remote" means.

A company could be willing to hire remote, but to them remote could mean somebody within the area who can drop by the office from time to time.

Still, I am very impressed by your efforts.

[zura]

Exactly. I barely look for [remote] jobs at US companies, because most likely it is US-only remote. This trend became popular in UK as well. On the other hand, remote jobs at companies from other countries are usually world-wide remote.

Employers - please take this in count in HN Who is Hiring threads as well.

[kungfooey]

If I had to do it again I would have asked "Does your company embrace a remote work culture?" That's more what I was looking for. Oh well. It was still interesting to talk to 45 different companies and get their take on it.

I did ask a few details about how they accommodated remote work (most had teams on IRC, Slack, or Hipchat and only one said they used Jabber) but I didn't standardize as much so I didn't write down all that data. I only had about 2 hours to collect all this so I had to make some sacrifices somewhere. As it was I missed a couple of companies that folded their tables up before I could get to them.

[phantom_oracle]

Perhaps you don't need to make the process completely manual.

You could collect the data through some hosted form from all the companies at the same time.

[chrismorgan]

Or recruit a few people to help.

[michaelchum]

I would volunteer to help out at next year's Pycon in Mtl if you're planning to do produce a similar survey