Joanne Pratt, President of Joanne H. Pratt Associates, is a futurist who researches new patterns of work enabled by emerging technologies. She also helps organisations implement telework. Research clients include the US Small Business Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Departments of Labour, Housing and Urban Design, AT&T, Sprint, Southwestern Bell Telephone and the International Telework Association and Council. To count the new mobile workforce, she conceived the strategy of piggybacking work-at-home questions onto existing governmental and private surveys. Publications include Asking the Right Questions about Telecommuting, Counting the New Mobile Workforce, Home­based Businesses, Myths and Realities of Working at Home, Policy and Travel Planning Implications of Work/Life Changes, and Teamwork, Trust and Technology. Ms Pratt has presented papers at confer­ences in England, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Canada and Australia. She is currently researching e-work and is a member of an international team developing standards for surveys. Her degrees are from Oberlin College and Harvard University.

Selected publications

	Telework and Society-Implications for Corporate and Societal Cultures. Prepared for the Telework and the American Worker in the 21st Century symposium. US Department of Labor, Xavier University, October 16, 2000.
	Piggybacking on Existing Surveys: A Methodology for Obtaining New Perspectives on Changing Travel Behaviors. Presented at the International Association of Travel Behavior Research, Gold Coast, Australia, July 2000. (Forthcoming)
	Cost/benefits of Teleworking to Manage Work/life Responsibilities, The International Telework Associa­tion & Council, 1999.
	Teleworker Attitudes and Work Styles, 1997. Proprietary Report for AT&T. (In association with FIND/ SVP.)
	Counting the New Mobile Workforce, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, US Department of Transpor­tation, 1997.