HOW TO GET A   Work-from- Home Job AT THE BEST COMPANIES

On a typical day in the Atlanta suburbs, Carly Williams drops off 9-year-old Luke and 7-year-old Morgan at school, returns home and hops on the phone to start her day as PwC’s national campus recruiting leader. If she’s training for a half marathon, she’ll squeeze in a long run during lunch. In the afternoons, she and her husband take turns shuttling the kids to baseball practice or gymnastics classes.

Carly’s position is demanding and career-fulfilling. Her job is also completely remote, giving her more flexibility to volunteer in the classroom or pick up an unexpectedly sick kid from school.

More and more companies, including almost all of the Working Mother 100 Best Companies, are offering or arranging these kinds of work-from-home positions. A 2017 Gallup report on the changing workplace found that, among employees who work remotely at all, the percentage who do so full-time rose to 20 percent in 2016 from 15 percent in