It’s called Flexrem and it’s the startup born in November 2023 that aims to innovate the field of remote and hybrid working by addressing the global market of users and companies from the beginning. In the last 4 months, Flexrem has started hosting several tens of thousands of job opportunities and users internationally. It was founded by Luca Tamburrino and is a marketplace of B2B & B2B opportunities and services in the new world of remote and hybrid work.
Flexrem’s mission is to build a new work-life balance for both the current global workforce and companies, starting from its foundation which is represented by the generation of flex and remote job opportunities, and then meeting new service topics that will soon be online and available to both users and companies.
Flexrem intends to rethink the way companies and remote professionals connect, with a mission to create seamless interactions in the world of remote and hybrid work by challenging traditional geographical boundaries and outdated recruitment models.
It is divided into 4 different product iterations. Currently in its first phase, that of recruiting without being a job board, the startup has created an innovative advanced job search model with a specific algorithm that has three search keys as a pattern: how, where, what.
In this way, the user will not be able to search as a job title, but will be able to start his search for opportunities through the mode of how he would like to search and Flexrem here offers 5 innovative modes: Hybrid, Remote Country, Remote Countries, Anywhere, Business Area. Subsequently, based on its selected how, it will find an automation on the search where and the user will be able to enter his job title.
Flexrem is also bringing to market a first version of AI and LLM Matching to improve the quality and optimization of searchable job postings. This will create a new way to define the what and how, not just the job title a person is looking for. Through this technology, a new standard is defined for job matching, where “how and what” become an extension of each person’s desire to discover new unexplored career horizons.
Hybrid, flexible, international working
The same model has been created for companies when they share their job offers through a specific job spec where they have to validate the requirements and values of the flex or remote offer. Companies also have access to an application tracking system created by FlexRem, a company page built on the value of perks and benefits designed for the remote worker, and numerous data and insights on their employer branding and recruiting activity on Flexrem. All this while paying €29.90 per month for each individual job slot.
Currently, 44% of Flexrem users apply to a remote or flex job offer worldwide after arriving on the platform.
“We created Flexrem because our mission is to be able to improve the quality of the work-life balance of people around the world and to give companies the opportunity to find their best talent, freelancers and employees, without any borders or barriers,” Luca Tamburrino, founder of Flexrem, tells Startupbusiness. The concept of work-life balance, boundaries and barriers creates associations with other issues that are absolutely new in the current labor market such as the numerous tax breaks created by the various international countries, digital nomad visa, payroll, compliance, employer or record, company re-trip, insurance, remote advisor and then arrive at the ‘workation’, people free to be able to travel while working. In addition to many others such as keys to interpretation and implementations. We started by creating the foundation of this big open house called Flexrem. In other words, we started from the innovation of job search and talent search through a message that is: ‘Now you can choose how and where do you prefer to work’. Since the end of November, we have analyzed several thousand data points of the current labor market and its future, the most important requests and needs from users, and the challenges that such a demanding system still brings. To give you a transparent summary, these were the most important data for us: in 2024, the distribution of workers has stabilized with 14% fully remote, 57% in the office, and 29% hybrid. 98 per cent of employees prefer some form of remote working (source: Forbes); 16 per cent of companies globally are fully remote, while 63 per cent offer a hybrid or remote option (source: Owl Labs); remote working policies allow companies to tap into global talent pools, with 50 per cent hiring from different continents (source: Remote.co); global hiring is easier than ever: 70 per cent of companies use remote working to access talent from around the world (source: SHRM). And again: remote work is not without its challenges. A survey by Owl Labs revealed that loneliness is a significant concern for remote workers, with 22 per cent citing it as the biggest challenge; remote working saves employees an average of 100 hours per year in travel time (source: Business Insider); despite the benefits, remote working comes with challenges. One report found that 35% of remote employees have work-life [Buffer]balance issues; remote work isn’t just good for you, it’s good for the planet as well. Telecommuting can reduce carbon emissions by up to 54 million tonnes per year (source: Global Workforce Analytics); demand for home office real estate increases by 80%, reshaping the real estate market (source: Realtor); insurance for digital nomads is booming: it covers health, travel and equipment for a worry-free remote lifestyle (source: Insurance Business Magazine). We want to create a multi-purpose digital space to make it the ideal space for remote & flex workers and companies and in the coming weeks we will share the next iterations of Flexrem as a product and its market strategy and what else it will host within it to solve many changing needs of the current labor market. What is certain is that more and more people are looking for more time for themselves, to have a new balance with work. To say that I can actually only work in a specific country or city or, on the contrary, only hire people in a certain geographical context is something that is no longer rational as a thought for many sectors, jobs and industries. Instead, it is logical to be able to freely choose where and how one can work’. (photo by Kristin Wilson on Unsplash)
(reader’s note: Luca Tamburrino is also a contributor to Startupbusiness and together with the editor of the publication recently published the book ‘What and Where: Digital Job Search Strategies’ published by Franco Angeli – reader’s note: this article was updated on 13 February 2025)
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