Each of the following modules is specifically tailored to the client organization. These services are available either as stand-alone modules or as a customized series.


Teleworking Start-up for Private Companies
Designed for companies that want to shorten the process of learning about telework. By using our knowledge of other companies’ experience with telecommuting and other forms of telework and our extensive library of telecommuting reports, we can save clients the time and cost of "reinventing the wheel." The product of this module often forms chapters in a company's white paper written to gain top management approval for implementing telework.
Benefit: Learn from other companies what works and does not work.


Teleworking Start-up for States
Designed for administrators in state government, this is an opportunity to create interest and action in both the public and private sector by learning from the experience of states that have already implemented telework.
Benefit: Learn from other states what works and does not work.


Compliance Assessment
Assessment of the organization's level of compliance with the Clean Air Act and with hiring practices under the American Disabilities Act.
Benefit: Obtain a baseline of current practice to use as the government requires transportation demand management measures to be implemented. Assures company documentation of employee trip reductions under the Clean Air Act and hiring practices under the American Disabilities Act.


Formalizing Telework
Reshaping of informal teleworking to comply with the Clean Air Act and the American Disabilities Act hiring regulations.
Objective: Develop a plan to formalize telework in companies that are using remote work but may or may not call their practice "telecommuting" or one of the many other names for telework.


Senior Management Briefing
A discussion format which, at the client’s option, begins with a formal overview of teleworking. The briefing emphasizes discussion of management’s questions about issues such as workers’ compensation; examples of successful telecommuting programs; types of companies that should not implement telework; and ways that other companies avoid pitfalls.
Benefit: Gains support of top managers for teleworking.


Teleworking Needs Assessment
The organization is examined department by department to identify where teleworking could increase productivity and/or compliance. A report with rationale, includes recommendations of departments that should introduce telework as company prototypes, and departments where telework would not be suitable.
Objective: Assess the feasibility of teleworking for the company.


Middle Management Briefing
Follows the format of the senior management briefing with a more detailed discussion of practical implementation issues that specifically relate to middle management concerns.
Benefit: Gains support of middle managers for telework.


Designing a Telework Program
Work closely with company staff to 1) develop recommendations for phasing in company departments and/or branch offices; 2) set up the company’s internal policy group; 3) identify items to include in the teleworkers' agreement,- and 4) develop selection and training procedures and schedule.
Benefit: Builds a teleworking program tailored to the company's needs.


Selection of Teleworkers and Telemanagers
Provide criteria of tasks and personalities benefited by teleworking. Supply questionnaires to use for screening prospective telemanagers and teleworkers.
Benefit: Assures that telemanagers and teleworkers are well suited to teleworking.


Training of Telemanagers and Teleworkers
A three-part workshop that trains separately, first the telemanagers and then the teleworkers, and finally brings the telemanager-teleworker teams together to plan the first months’ teleworking procedures and schedule.
Benefit: Assures smooth implementation of successful telework.


Troubleshooting the Teleworking Program
Through telephone interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups, pinpoint problems and develop solutions to maximize the effectiveness of telework within the organization.
Objective: Identify and correct problems.


Formal Evaluation of Telework
Evaluate the teleworking program using baseline, midterm and final surveys which provide comparisons with a normative database of other organizations’ programs. Make recommendations for extending telework throughout the company, if appropriate, and for formalizing of record-keeping procedures so that teleworking can count as compliance with Clean Air Act and American Disabilities Act commuting and hiring goals.
Benefit: Achieve a successful, documented telework program.

Take the Project Status Quiz to determine the next steps you need to take to implement telework in your organization.

The cost of assistance with each module varies with company size. Please call Joanne H. Pratt Associates, (214)528-6540 for estimates.