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With remote work here to stay, a collaboration-software maker thrives.
U.S. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Amid the seemingly endless post-pandemic debate over returning to the office, collaboration-software company Atlassian has doubled down on remote work, both internally—it describes its own 12,000-person workforce as “fully distributed”—and in its products. The maker of enormously profitable project-management software such as Jira and Confluence has posted average revenue growth of 30% over the past three years, and generated $4.4 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, as large enterprises rely on its products to help their own far-flung teams cooperate.
Atlassian’s own ultra-flexible culture has earned it a reputation as a desirable employer,