The tide has turned. Moms are taking on and in some cases, taking over the business world. Not only are employers turning to a readily available mass of at-home workers, they are finding these workers to be smart, creative, innovative, technologically adept, and yes, college educated, they are finding these employees and contractors in the one place no one ever believed they would - at the kitchen table, baby bouncing on her knee, hair up on top of her head, phone at her ear and computer set upon the same table that used to be used to trade stories of days at school, at her husband's daily stories of the daily grind, of coffee shared between friends, and of baby food strewn upon it. Wake up folks - moms are back, and we are taking the world by storm. The availability of online degree programs has made it so that almost anyone can get a good, reliable college education as long as they have at least three hours a week and internet access. Those interested in such programs as Business Management, Medical Assisting, Paralegal Studies, Education and Teacher Training, among some of the most popular programs, are no longer only those who are trying to further their education so as to further their career. Moms are seeing the trend as a boon to their families and their lives.

Many women now have the luxury of staying at home with their kids and getting a college education. Because they are, for the most part, already a responsible and reliable group, moms are also not only making the Deans Lists of many respectable online degree campuses, they are also getting the attention of another very important part of the working population - CEOs and Human Resource Managers. These people are seeing the value in hiring telecommuting moms in place of fresh graduate in their 20's and hiring moms at home in place of what used to be the supposedly more valued employee. The reasons are many, but moms at home are generally more responsible, readily available, able to mutli-task and know how to save money. Moms, it seems, are being noticed because they offer an employer the less-expensive prospect of an off-site employee who can be trusted to get work completed on a deadline. And you know what else?

We are liking this, a lot.

Moms are liking the idea that the tide has turned and that employers are starting to take seriously the promise of workers who do not need to be told to use their imaginations, workers who work until the job is done, who pay attention to detail and who are there at the ready because as it is, moms are some of the most important people on the planet - we raise the next generation of leaders in industry and politics. Therefore, it would seem, that if an employer hires one mom to do the job of three , money will be saved, work will actually get done, and there will be no worries about the work being done correctly. And make no mistake - the long exodus of highly skilled, former office working moms who left corporate America are out there and are getting hired in mass numbers, and it is because in comparison to the prospect of hiring new graduates, employers know that these educated at-home moms were once "outside the home" employees of some of global corporate giants in areas such as sales, marketing, IT and Public Relations. Employers know that there is a wealth of experienced employees who are ready to make a living who cannot leave the house, and these same employers are seeing the value in the employee who is not only seasoned, but also not physically there.

So if it is any indication to the rest of the moms at home reading this of just how important it is to get an education, know now that there are employers who are willing to take the risk of an employee who is not physically there in the building with them who will actually work, and know that even as the rest of the world put us moms-at-home, for at least a little while, at the top of the list of societal pariahs, we are now being seen as some of the most valuable prospects for hire by corporate America. When the chance presented itself for this author to return to college via online degree programs to get her degree in Communications, she jumped at the chance. And why not? We moms stand just as much chance to be hired by the big boys of corporate America, maybe even a better chance than an actual person being there in the office in person.

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