Joanne H. Pratt Associates is a virtual company led by Joanne Pratt. From the publication of its early survey of homebased workers in 1980, the firm has been recognised as an authority on all aspects of homebased work including business impacts, transportation and air quality implications, family issues, and impacts on corporate work patterns, neighbourhood crime, and land use. The firm does not have employees but works with virtual teams assembled for each project. Pratt Associates works in three areas:

• we assist organisations in assessing and implement teleworking. As consultants for both public and private organisations, the firm helps train employees to work from home offices;
• we research trends in changing work patterns. Pratt Associates has explored a lot of issues related to telework ranging from technological to legal and to psychosocial impacts of telework. Particularly relevant to this project is Pratt Associates’ work on incorporating the measurement of telework into US surveys including the Bureau of Census Survey of Income and Program Participation, (SIPP), the Current Population Survey (the US primary employment survey), the National Longitudinal Surveys, American Housing Survey, and the National Personal Transportation Survey. We completed for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the US Department of Transportation an analysis of sources of data on telecommuting and other work carried out in or from homes. We have persuaded govern­ment agencies and private organisations to standardise the wording of telecommuting/telework ques­tions so that the data is meaningful and can be compared across surveys;
• the firm has extensive experience designing and conducting household surveys, mail surveys, case studies, and telephone and personal interviews.