Marcia A. Reed-Woodard reports on ways you can successfully advocate to transform your present job into a telecommuting job. “There is a trend toward making jobs more mobile and permitting employees to have remote access to work from home,” says Jane Anderson, director of Midwest Institute of Telecommuting, a nonprofit consultancy that assists employers and [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Work and Family columnist, Sue Shellenbarger, discusses telecommuting. Amid the numerous files I juggle on my desk, one has been growing steadily for years. It now contains a 3½-inch stack of missives from readers, all asking the same question: How can I get a good job working from home? After years [...]