For nearly 15 years now, Iglu has been one of the biggest names in remote work in
Southeast Asia. Positioned as a specialist in the outsourcing of tech talent and business
processes, Iglu’s competitive edge lies with its people—and the unique model it employs to
attract top talent.
Headquartered in London, Iglu is a network of companies with bases in the UK, Estonia,
Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong. They specialise in supplying clients with top tech talent,
that they either employ around the world through their local entities, or contract
fully-remote. Iglu also enables companies to outsource entire business processes, such as
sales, marketing and customer service.
Iglu: Not Your Typical Outsourcing Partner
One of Iglu’s core services is Team Extension, where they provide one or more consultants
to work alongside a client’s team. A typical client could be e.g. a software development
company, who is struggling to find the right people with the right skills and needs to fill the
gaps in their team. For example Oivan Oy, a Finnish software development company, has
been trusting Iglu to provide their projects with senior software engineers for the past
decade.
“A key difference with Iglu compared to a traditional outsourcing company is that we may,
for instance, offer a Finnish software consultant based in Thailand for a client project in
Finland, or a French digital marketer in Vietnam to help a client in Paris. Our ability to
match to that level eliminates issues with cultural fit, unlike what you might get with some
traditional outsourcing agencies”, explains Santtu Säävälä, Iglu’s Deputy CEO.
Iglu also offers Business Process Outsourcing services, where a client may relocate an
entire business function to Thailand or Vietnam. Iglu currently provides this service to one
of Finland’s largest e-commerce retailers, who have their sales, customer service and
digital marketing teams set up in Bangkok with Iglu. The benefits are significant not only in
terms of cost savings, but also with increased staff-retention as well as the ability to serve
customers during different times of the day.
Opportunities for Talent Looking for a Change of Scenery
Iglu is unique in that they not only encourage remote work (except of course in cases
where clients need people onsite), they actually make it possible for talents to relocate to
some of the most in-demand destinations in the world. Want to live and work remotely in
Thailand, Vietnam or Hong Kong? If you’ve got the skills, work quality, and experience, Iglu
will let you choose and makes it possible.
They have modern, well-equipped offices in some great locations and tie compensation
directly to output and performance so that team members can determine their own
work-life balance. On top of that they offer a pack of benefits to employees specific to their
new countries along with assistance from their team in getting settled.
“Thanks to Iglu, I’ve met many fellow IT professionals who live in Chiang Mai on a long-term
basis.” -Juha, who moved from Tampere, Finland to Chiang Mai, Thailand.
“Great workers want control over their lifestyle and earnings potential. A lot of these people
would be successful freelancers if not for the setup and incentives we can offer them.
What we’ve done is just to recognize that reality and build it into our business model, which
gives us access to talent other companies miss out on,” said Säävälä.
Syncing Quality with Affordability
According to Säävälä, Iglu’s talent base is made up of professionals originally from all over
the world. Their team currently represents over 40 different nationalities with the majority
from Europe. The vast majority of those from the west opt to relocate to locations with
sunny climates and low cost of living like Thailand or Vietnam, whilst some of their staff
work remotely from their home countries around the world.
The end result is that while Iglu’s team members live enviable lives while working all over
the world, Iglu itself lives in that elusive sweet spot where quality, ease of access, reliability,
and competitive price point all intersect.
Learn More or Get in Touch Today
● https://iglu.net
● contact@iglu.net
● https://www.linkedin.com/company/iglu
