by Rat Race Rebellion    October 31, 2026
Working remotely can be liberating, but working from home every day isn’t ideal for everyone. A parent trying to focus while a toddler watches cartoons in the next room, a renter whose “home office” is one end of the kitchen table, a shift worker whose partner is on a different schedule, or someone who just wants to physically leave the house to signal the workday has started – all of these are reasons the perfect remote job might still include somewhere else to go.
Some remote-first employers have built that middle option into how they operate. Employees can work from home when they want, but they can also work from a co-working space, a shared office, or an employer-funded alternative – in most cases without being required to show up at a mandatory office on a mandatory schedule. The flexibility isn’t just about avoiding the commute. It’s about having a choice about where the workday happens.
Below, we highlight seven remote-friendly employers offering co-working or alternative workspace benefits, explain how these arrangements work, and share what to check before applying. Opportunities vary by company, with positions spanning customer service, operations, marketing, technology, and other professional fields.
Understanding the Different Workspace Benefits
Before the company list, a few distinctions worth having in hand. “The company pays for co-working” can mean several different things.
Co-working stipend: The employer provides a set allowance or reimbursement toward an outside workspace. Depending on the policy, employees may receive a fixed amount or submit expenses for reimbursement.
Employer-paid co-working membership: The company directly covers access to a specific co-working provider or network, so the employee doesn’t handle the invoicing.
Optional company offices or hubs:Â The employer maintains physical offices that remote employees can use without any requirement to attend. This differs from a hybrid schedule, which mandates attendance on specific days.
Flexible workspace allowance: A broader stipend that can be applied across co-working, home-office improvements, or related expenses depending on the employee’s preference.
Featured Companies
Bobbie is a direct-to-consumer organic infant formula company, headquartered in New York and operating a fully remote US-based workforce. The company has described its remote-first setup as predating 2020 – distributed from the start rather than retrofitted after the pandemic.
Bobbie’s careers page lists reimbursement for co-working spaces alongside a monthly WiFi stipend for home internet. The specific dollar amount of the co-working reimbursement isn’t published on the careers page itself. Bobbie’s hiring sits well outside the usual engineering-heavy remote lineup – recent openings have included roles in marketing, logistics, controller-level finance, brand management, and executive support, offering opportunities beyond the technology-focused roles common at many remote-first companies.
Hone is a leadership and management training company that runs live, virtual cohort-based programs for distributed teams. The company is remote-first, with employees working from home, a co-working space, or one of Hone’s hub offices by choice.
Hone’s careers page explicitly lists a co-working space stipend among its standard benefits, alongside flexible scheduling, flexible PTO, equity, and a professional development budget. The specific dollar amount isn’t published. Hone hires across sales, customer success, operations, marketing, and program management – the kinds of roles that support a B2B training business rather than an engineering-first product company.
Help Scout is a customer service software company. Its roles are 100% remote, with roles in the US and Canada hired as employees and roles elsewhere typically engaged as independent contractors. Some specific roles are limited to US applicants only.
Current Help Scout job postings describe a co-working stipend of up to $300 per month “if you choose to work out of your house,” offered alongside a home-office stipend. Help Scout’s compensation philosophy, documented on its own blog, ties pay to the employee’s geographic location. The company hires heavily in customer-facing roles (customer support, customer success, and account management) alongside engineering, product, and marketing.
Automattic is the parent company of WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and other software products. The company has been fully distributed since its founding, with approximately 1,900 employees across more than 90 countries per the company’s own public materials.
Automattic’s benefits page states that the company offers “home office setup and coworking allowances” to employees. The current dollar amount isn’t published on the benefits page itself. Automattic hires across engineering, product, design, marketing, sales, operations, and its substantial customer support team (“Happiness Engineers”).
Doist is the fully distributed software company behind Todoist (task management) and Twist (team communication). The team is async-first, with employees working across many countries and designing their own schedules around when they’re most productive.
Doist’s careers page states that the company covers the cost of a co-working space the employee chooses. The co-working benefit is listed alongside a monthly budget for apps and services and a recurring hardware allowance. Doist hires across engineering, product, design, marketing, and ambassador/support roles, though the company runs lean and openings don’t appear year-round in every function.
Linear is a project management and issue-tracking software company used primarily by software teams. The company is remote-first and hires across North America and Europe, with optional company hubs that employees can use without any expectation to attend.
Linear’s job postings describe paid co-working space or a desk among standard benefits, listed alongside a home-office budget. Linear also offers optional access to company workspaces in several cities, with no expectation of attendance — current hub locations and eligibility are worth confirming during the interview process. Linear hires primarily for experienced engineering, product, and design roles; non-technical openings are less frequent.
ngrok is a developer tools company providing secure tunneling and network connectivity software. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with most staff working remotely across US time zones. ngrok is an exception to the fully optional-office pattern of the other employers on this list: some Bay Area roles include regular in-office days at the SF office, with the specific schedule varying by position. The co-working benefit is targeted at employees who live outside the Bay Area.
ngrok’s careers page describes a one-time home office stipend for workspace setup, an annual learning budget, and a co-working stipend for employees who aren’t near the SF office and want a place to work outside their home. The dollar amounts aren’t published. Hiring is primarily for experienced engineering, product, and developer-facing roles.
What to Check Before Applying
A few practical questions worth asking during the interview process:
How is the benefit structured, and what’s the cap? A direct-pay membership, a reimbursement, and a general stipend all work differently in practice. Confirm the structure, the dollar limit (monthly or annual), and whether receipts are required.
Can you choose your own co-working location, and is your location covered? Some benefits are structured through a specific co-working provider or network; others let employees pick their own and submit for reimbursement. Also worth confirming: some benefits are US-only, EMEA-only, or otherwise geographically restricted.
Is office attendance truly optional? For employers with physical offices or hubs, ask whether attendance is genuinely optional or whether it affects team expectations, project assignments, or performance evaluations. Confirm the answer in writing.
Are there security or confidentiality restrictions on working outside the home? Roles that handle regulated data, customer PII, or confidential financial information sometimes have requirements that effectively rule out public co-working spaces. Worth asking before you commit to a location.
Final Take
Remote work isn’t one-size-fits-all. For some people, the ideal arrangement is working from home full-time. For others, the real value of flexibility is having somewhere else to go without being required to go there.
The seven employers above have each built that choice into their benefits in different ways – some as a reimbursement, some as an allowance, some as optional access to physical hubs. The specific structure matters as much as the general policy. If the ability to work somewhere other than your kitchen is part of what you’re looking for, the useful question to ask any remote employer isn’t “do you support co-working?” It’s “how, specifically, and who’s eligible?