Joanne H. Pratt Associates has provided telework consulting services for more than 20 years. We are particularly sensitive to implementing programs that will help our clients meet their goals and to embed telework as “best practice” for the organization. Throughout the process we assess the particular benefits and drawbacks of teleworking for that unique company in one-on-one meetings with executives, presentations to managers and staff, and formal training sessions. 

We have developed tools to help organizations select the best candidates for teleworking, customize policies including telemanager-teleworker agreements, and evaluate programs. We originated training materials that have been widely adopted. 

Our on-going research keeps us on the cutting edge of remote work trends. We draw extensively from that research in working with employers to find new ways to work that will increase the overall effectiveness of their companies. 

Joanne H. Pratt Associates helps organizations 

implement teleworking as a business strategy. We have worked with private corporations, such as GTE, Oryx Energy Company, Fina, AT&T, Sprint, Information Experts and Communication Strategies, Inc. We have also helped public agencies including the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Maryland Department of Transportation, the City of Rockville, MD begin teleworking.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) has selected Joanne H. Pratt Associates as consultant for each of its four employer outreach programs. Joanne Pratt also was the telecommuting/telework consultant for a three-year program sponsored by the North Central Texas Council of Governments. 

Joanne H. Pratt Associates helps vendors 

including AT&T, Fuji Film I&I, Apple Computer, Yankee Group, Xerox Corporation, American Executive Centers, Southwestern Bell Corporation, Sprint, DataRace, GTE, Ipaxess and Symantec sell to the home office market.

Joanne H. Pratt Associates researches trends

in changing work patterns. Ms. Pratt’s study for the Small Business Administration (SBA), Homebased Business: the Hidden Economy, analyzes 125,000 women, men and minority business owners. Widely cited in scholarly and trade publications, Ms. Pratt has also explored issues related to telework ranging from technological to legal and to psychosocial impacts of telework. Projects include ways that federal surveys can be used for Counting the New Mobile Workforce for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and two studies sponsored by AT&T, Cost/benefits of Using Teleworking to Manage Work/life Responsibilities and Teleworker Attitudes and Work Styles. She has analyzed home offices for HUD. She recently completed a survey of homebased business opportunities for the AARP, a new study for the SBA, E-Biz.com: Strategies for Small Business Success and the Telework America 2002 research, Teleworking Comes of Age with Broadband for ITAC.

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