diff --git a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/hostifaces/PowerShellProcessInstance.cs b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/hostifaces/PowerShellProcessInstance.cs
index 2ec10fa7705..f0f71454630 100644
--- a/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/hostifaces/PowerShellProcessInstance.cs
+++ b/src/System.Management.Automation/engine/hostifaces/PowerShellProcessInstance.cs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static PowerShellProcessInstance()
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PowerShellProcessInstance"/> class. Initializes the underlying dotnet process class. 
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PowerShellProcessInstance"/> class. Initializes the underlying dotnet process class.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="powerShellVersion">Specifies the version of powershell.</param>
         /// <param name="credential">Specifies a user account credentials.</param>
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ public PowerShellProcessInstance(Version powerShellVersion, PSCredential credent
             {
                 processArguments = string.Format(
                     CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
-                    "{0} -wd {1}",
+                    "{0} -wd \"{1}\"",
                     processArguments,
-                    workingDirectory);
+                    workingDirectory.Replace("\"", "\"\""));
             }
 
             if (initializationScript != null)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ public PowerShellProcessInstance(Version powerShellVersion, PSCredential credent
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PowerShellProcessInstance"/> class. Initializes the underlying dotnet process class. 
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="PowerShellProcessInstance"/> class. Initializes the underlying dotnet process class.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="powerShellVersion"></param>
         /// <param name="credential"></param>
diff --git a/test/powershell/engine/Job/Jobs.Tests.ps1 b/test/powershell/engine/Job/Jobs.Tests.ps1
index 4e0332afdbb..cdccbf6b253 100644
--- a/test/powershell/engine/Job/Jobs.Tests.ps1
+++ b/test/powershell/engine/Job/Jobs.Tests.ps1
@@ -77,10 +77,20 @@ Describe 'Basic Job Tests' -Tags 'CI' {
             $ProgressMsg[0].StatusDescription | Should -BeExactly 2
         }
 
-        It 'Can use the user specified working directory parameter' {
-            $job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { $pwd } -WorkingDirectory $TestDrive | Wait-Job
+        It 'Can use the user specified working directory parameter with whitespace' {
+            $path = Join-Path -Path $TestDrive -ChildPath "My Dir"
+            $null = New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path "$path"
+            $job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { $pwd } -WorkingDirectory $path | Wait-Job
             $jobOutput = Receive-Job $job
-            $jobOutput | Should -BeExactly $TestDrive.ToString()
+            $jobOutput | Should -BeExactly $path.ToString()
+        }
+
+        It 'Can use the user specified working directory parameter with quote' -Skip:($IsWindows) {
+            $path = Join-Path -Path $TestDrive -ChildPath "My ""Dir"
+            $null = New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path "$path"
+            $job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { $pwd } -WorkingDirectory $path | Wait-Job
+            $jobOutput = Receive-Job $job
+            $jobOutput | Should -BeExactly $path.ToString()
         }
 
         It 'Throws an error when the working directory parameter is <case>' -TestCases $invalidPathTestCases {