Atlassian, Deel & Dropbox Leak Talent, Not Water Coolers
KEY POINTS
- •Atlassian, Dropbox, and Deel are maintaining remote work policies despite many companies pushing for office returns.
- •These firms have reported increased job applications and employee retention due to their flexible work arrangements.
- •Leaders like Deel's CEO, Alex Bouaziz, noted that companies returning to the office are losing talent to them.
Forget the office cubicle apocalypse: Atlassian’s 13,000 flexible warriors report that remote work since 2020 doubled applicants per job. Deel bragged about hiring 2,000 folks from a 1.5 million stampede of resume gladiators in 2024 alone — all while other firms cling to their RTO desks like a toddler on a security blanket. Dropbox’s "virtual-first" shift since 2021 boosted job applicants nearly sevenfold and drove attrition to historic lows. Mozilla offers work-from-hamba-office-co-working-whatevers across NYC, Berlin, and London because apparently, allowing choice is how you win 2025. Meanwhile, Olipop spends millions on employee gold PPO insurance plans instead of dusty desks, and Toptal whispers sweet nothings about an 80/20 remote/In-person fantasy existence. Zapier throws annual meetups where 800 global employees actually see each other—proof Zoom fatigue might finally get ghosted.
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Companies still demanding office face-time are shedding talent like a bad haircut, while remote champs like Deel are swimming in 1.5 million job applications like it’s Black Friday at Amazon.
Back-to-office zealots are losing talent to remote-friendly startups faster than you can say ‘Zoom background’.
Atlassian and Dropbox are basically the Tinder of tech jobs – showing up in the DMs of talent ghosting cubicles everywhere.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 11/14/2025 | Author: Ana Altchek,Tim Paradis
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