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r/remotework

Remote Work. A place to discuss remote work. Not a job board. Founded 2014 · 629.1K members

630.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 54.7K upvotes, which works out to 87 per 1,000 members.

87peak upvotes per 1,000 members
630.9Kmembers
54.7Kbest post
3.6Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

61% 20% 16%
Text 61% Link 20% Image 16% Question 4%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My company announced mandatory office days again, so I resigned mid-meeting

↑ 54.7K 💬 3.6K text 2025

My manager said “ remote work kills team connection ”, so I invited him to one of our calls

↑ 50.9K 💬 1.2K text 2025

Got laid off due to an RTO requirement the week I was going to put in my 2 weeks and quit.

↑ 28.9K 💬 684 text 2025

This should be illegal

↑ 21.7K 💬 489 image 2026

Our employees aren't children. Spotify will continue working remotely. 🏆

↑ 21.4K 💬 200 image 2024

Coworker thinks she's escaped. She has not

↑ 18.2K 💬 706 text 2025

The HR team expressed their thanks

↑ 16.5K 💬 186 image 2026

My manager scheduled a “mandatory fun” Zoom call on a Friday evening

↑ 14.1K 💬 992 text 2025

got written up for going to the dentist at 2pm while working from home

↑ 13.2K 💬 1.8K text 2026

Amazon's RTO is backfiring according to recruiters...no kidding

↑ 12.3K 💬 759 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/remotework, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/remotework?
r/remotework ("Remote Work") describes itself this way: A place to discuss remote work. Not a job board. It was founded in 2014 and has 629.1K members.
How many members does r/remotework have?
r/remotework has about 630.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 54.7K upvotes, which is 87 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/remotework?
"My company announced mandatory office days again, so I resigned mid-meeting" reached 54.7K upvotes and 3.6K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/remotework.
What subreddits are similar to r/remotework?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop, r/madisonwi.
What kind of posts do best on r/remotework?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are text posts and 20% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/remotework?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 19:00 UTC (12K avg upvotes), Monday at 23:00 UTC (10.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (10.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/remotework?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/remotework has 8.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/remotework, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.