My current and previous jobs have been 100% (or certainly >90% including travel) working from home. You need to let them know in your initial contact and they need to already have remote workers. The ones who say "maybe" will wait until the end of the interview process and change their mind.
It does take a lot more applications to get an offer and it does mean you have to write off most the big players (Facebook, Google, Apple generally won't have new hires working from home) but it's totally possible and I doubt I'll ever work in an office (or maybe even for an employer in Scotland where I work from) ever again.
My job didn't start as a remote working deal. I worked at my company for 8 years in the office. Then I got married and was going to move. I was fully prepared to get a new job though. At the time it wouldn't have taken long. But I liked my job and was good at it, so I said I'd like to continue remotely. After discussing for a few months we decided it was worth trying.
Its a no brainer for companies that are distributed anyways. I work at a bigCo, spread across the country. Many of the people that I work/interact with daily are in different timezones. Suddenly driving to the office isn't a big deal. Doesn't hurt that I have a horrible commute. Have been working here for a little over a year, and have went from 1 work from home day a week to 3 (although in practice it often ends up 4). As someone fresh out of college, it was an unexpected surprise, and will unfortunately tarnish my opinion of any future job prospects, as it's something I've grown quite fond of.
I worked 100% from home/remote for almost a decade. I found it via connections/chance... I'd emailed someone I read about in a magazine, we kept in contact, a few months later he asked if I'd like to help his friend with a small website project. Apparently they liked my work, because they kept sending me more of it.
Yeah, I'm getting the impression it's usually a more casual deal or something you grow into after 'proving' yourself at your current work-from-office position.
Perhaps it's a niche for a jobs board? If you try and search for remote/telecommute jobs at the moment all you seem to get is spam.
It does take a lot more applications to get an offer and it does mean you have to write off most the big players (Facebook, Google, Apple generally won't have new hires working from home) but it's totally possible and I doubt I'll ever work in an office (or maybe even for an employer in Scotland where I work from) ever again.