If it seems like more people are working from home these days, they are. Every year the organization I work for, FlexJobs, researches the state of remote work. Our 2017 State of Telecommuting in the U.S. Employee Workforce report shows that remote work exceeds public transportation as the commute option of choice in more than half of the top U.S. metro areas. And remote work has grown far faster than any other commute mode. As of 2017, 43 percent of U.S. workers work remotely at least occasionally, up from 9 percent of workers in 2007. And in a survey of over