Rise of the results-oriented work environment Companies that bother to consider their employees’ difficulties balancing work with the rest of their lives tend to nibble at the problem. Imagine instead a job where all that mattered was your results. Not the hours you spent at your desk or the number of meetings you attended but [...]
Archive for September, 2009
ROWE and H1N1
Like clockwork, it’s here again: Flu season and the ”what are we going to do?” workplace mentality. The Harvard School of Public Health recently sounded the alarm about the readiness of businesses to respond to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus: Only 33% believe they could sustain their business without severe operational problems if half their [...]
Eli Lilly No Longer a Top Company for Working Women?
For the past 14 years, Working Mother magazine has put Eli Lilly on their list of Top 100 Best Companies. One more year and they’ll be eligible to join the “Hall of Fame” which includes other pharmaceutical giants such as GlaxoSmithKline and Merck. But we wonder if their status is in jeopardy given the fallout [...]
Business Week
Three years ago, I wrote a cover story about Best Buy’s radical experiment to reshape the workforce. The story told the tale of two HR subversives who started a stealth movement among Best Buy’s headquarters employees to work wherever and whenever they wanted.
Our cover story on this smashing the clock phenom said it all: “No schedules. No meetings. No joke.” The idea was that work should be measured in output, not hours. Performance should be based on results, not face time.
GAP goes ROWE
We’ve been bursting at the seams to talk about our latest ROWE success story and now we finally can: Gap Outlet, a division of San Francisco-based Gap, Inc. has officially migrated 137 Corporate Headquarters employees to a Results-Only Work Environment. The work began back in February 2008, when Outlet’s production and technical services team piloted ROWE. [...]
Sorry, But We're Out of Time
We haven’t heard the reports yet, but the first National Vacation Matters Summit was held in Seattle recently. The conference, backed by non-profit Take Back Your Time, was created to prompt a discussion about the death of the American vacation. Indeed, some of the facts and stats from TBYT’s website are eye-opening: The U.S. is [...]
What if Teachers Ran the Schools?
The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently ran a story about a new state law that gives teachers the power to create charter-style schools that are still under the umbrella of the more traditional top-down school district: Here’s how the law works: Schools would have a contract with the school board. But they would otherwise be exempt [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
