Principal Researcher at the Telework Research Network (TRN), which has been been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, and dozens of other publications. Their unique Telework Savings Calculator has been used by company and community leaders throughout the U.S. and Canada to quantify the extent to which telecommuting can reduce greenhouse gases and petroleum usage, save money, improve work-life balance, increase employee loyalty and turnover, reduce absenteeism, increase productivity, reduce highway congestion and traffic accidents, and more.

Her latest whitepaper: Workshifting: Bottom Line Benefits (sponsored by Citrix) summarizes the findings of the report for various size companies. Custom reports allow organizations to model their own savings potential based on dozens of user-defined assumptions.

Kate and her partner, Tom Harnish, are co-authors of the popular-press book Undress For Success: The Naked Truth About Working At Home (Wiley 2009). It has won the praise of top telework and worklife advocates including WorldatWork, the Canadian Telework Association, the Telework Coalition, the Sloan Foundation, and the father of telecommuting, Jack Nilles.