Thanks to the reader who sent this through the Tell us why work sucks button: Please be advised that the temperature in this office is set by me and ONLY by me. The thermostats are NOT TO BE TOUCHED – PERIOD. Should you find 21 degrees Celsius (standard room temperature) too chilly, put on additional [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Three Things You Can Do To Be More ROWE
1. Listen for Sludge At first, you’ll hear the obvious Sludge. You’ll hear the nasty comment from a coworker (“How nice of you to join us today!”) and you’ll recognize it as Sludge. The longer and more intently you listen for Sludge, the more you’ll start to hear all of the subtle Sludge that is [...]
Voices from a ROWE: Ami
Have we mentioned that we’re very pleased about how our book turned out? Well, we are pleased, especially with the stories that bookend the chapters. These “Voices from a ROWE” really make the book, because it’s not just what we say and think about ROWE, but what real people have experienced with ROWE. Just check out [...]
ROWE on the TV!
There’s nothing even remotely official yet, but we thought you’d like to know that we’re talking to a number of producers about bringing the drama of the Results-Only Work Environment to TV viewers everywhere. Did we say drama? Yes, we did. Life gets easier once a team has migrated from a traditional work environment to [...]
Death from Overwork
We previously wrote about the Toyota engineer who allegedly died from overwork. (In Japan, the phenomenon is called karoshi.) A Japanese labor bureau has recently ruled that excessive overtime was indeed the cause of his death and that his family is now eligible to collect benefits from his work insurance. This is still an incredibly [...]
We Hear You!
There’s a little buttony, widgety thingy over to the right that says “Tell us why work sucks.” (It’s right above the RSS buttony, widgety thingy.) Many of you have been clicking on it and telling us your stories. Thank you! We can’t solve the problem of work unless we’re all talking about it as a problem. [...]
HAPPY HOUR
Work sucks. Or at least the way we work sucks. Sometimes the best solace is griping over it at happy hour. It’s good to rant about this stuff every once in awhile – and we’d like to rant with you! Can we tag along, Twin Cities? Of course we can’t hit every happy hour, but [...]
Do You Really Want To Be THAT Company?
British meat company Brown Brothers recently (and rightfully) caught flak for their “Dickensian” bathroom break policy. The company required that workers clock out, and then take off their boots, overalls and hairnets before going to the toilet. Union leaders complained this amounted to having workers lose pay in order to use the loo. The company [...]
Looking forward to 2048
Our mouths pretty much dropped when a friend sent us a copy of a “Guide to Hiring Women” from a 1943 issue of Mass Transportation magazine. We thought it must be a hoax, but Snopes bore out that it’s oh so real. Here are some of our favorite moments: “[P]ick young married women . . [...]
Listen Here
We were joined on our virtual book tour yesterday by three amazing guests – Tim Ferriss, David Allen, and Melanie Benson Strick. As always, there was passionate, engaging conversation about ROWE, the book, and the need to shift our paradigms about work. The link to the streaming audio is here: http://www.snipurl.com/caliandjody3 The downloadable file can [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
