Interesting and terrifying piece over at WSJ.com about office saboteurs. It never ceases to amaze us - how the traditional work environment allows (and even encourages) this kind of behavior: Managers who protect their jobs by undermining their employees Coworkers who take credit for your good work Coworkers who lay blame for their bad work Gossips [...]
Archive for November, 2008
It's Not The Free (It's The Money)
As we wrote in a previous post, we are part of an incredible opportunity: Thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Transportation, we have the funding to take a number of Twin Cities companies and transform their traditional work environments into a Results-Only Work Environment. The idea is to help reduce traffic congestion [...]
Don't Settle For "Flexible"
This summer, when gas was $4 a gallon, a number of state governments turned to telecommuting and compressed work weeks as a way of reducing costs. Since then, we’ve been tracking the happenings in states like Utah, where we found this post about the economics of Utah’s 4-day workweek. (Thanks, Utah Economist!) The Utah Economist [...]
The ROWE List
For us, this is a very exciting day. Six years ago in our cubes at Best Buy, we started dreaming up the vision for what we thought work should look and feel like. As we daydreamed about the future, one of our far-reaching fantasies was that one day, people would be asking us where the [...]
Interview with Pam Slim – Part 2
And now…the second part of our interview with Pam Slim. We hope her insights and stories are helpful to those of you that are wavering on the “Should I stay in my job or venture out on my own?” line. She is one of the few folks that shoots straight about the entrepreneurial experience, and [...]
Interview with Pam Slim – Part 1
We’re excited to be able to share an interview with our friend and fellow rabble-rouser, Pam Slim. In an attempt to share experiences with you of how people “deal” with their work situations, we thought Pam’s story and what she’s up to would be something you’d enjoy. In addition to a blog titled “Escape From Cubicle [...]
Hodo-Hodo Zuku
We don’t know where to begin. In fact, we’re a bit speechless, so this will be brief. Japan, the country known for working its people to death (see our post on “karoshi” from earlier this year) now has pockets of people standing up to take their lives back. The WSJ story that gives the scoop is [...]
Can I Vote After I Go To The Bathroom?
It should be no surprise, and yet we’re flabbergasted. In traditional work environments where everything is dictated – when you need to be in your chair, when you can leave, whether you can spend an hour to go to the doctor – why wouldn’t voting time be part of the dictated rules? In a country where [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
