The $1,000,000 question: How can I can convince my company to go ROWE? Depending on your organization’s current culture, the path to a ROWE will vary. Unfortunately, the path does not always lead to a ROWE. Many of you may remember my year and a half long battle with my employer, which did not result [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Rethinking Benefits in a Results-Only World
We had mixed feelings about the following blog post from the Wall Street Journal, which talks about the effect the economic downturn on benefits corporations give to its employees. On the one hand, we’re sad to see that companies are cutting 401(k) contributions and educational reimbursements. In a perfect world people could be paid enough [...]
Thought Experiment: Rail Time or “-Ish” Time?
A brief history of Rail Time, and a thought experiment relating to a ROWE world and our relationship to Time, if Time did not matter…
Inc. Magazine Makes Magic Without Office
This February, the good people at Inc. tried an experiment. The magazine’s 30 editors, reporters and producers created the April issue virtually. There was one all-staff meeting–which took place at editor Jane Berentson’s home–but otherwise they rejected the trappings of the traditional workplace. The magazine’s offices in downtown Manhattan stayed resolutely empty. The New York [...]
Changing More Than the Workplace
We were pleased to see this mention in the Huffington Post from Morra Aarons-Mele as part of their coverage of the Workplace Flexibility Conference . She does a nice job linking how people are waking up to a new way of working to how people are waking up to what needs to change in how [...]
Come on Down, Stacey Swanson….
You are the next team member to join the ROWE movement! I have the best job in the world. I help people in a way that was not conceivable 7 years ago. My background, an HR professional, gets mixed reactions. HR? Oh, you are one of “those” people. Yes, one of those people, but a [...]
Michael Salamey, Please Stand Up!
Introducing our latest ROWE Revolutionary–Michael Salamey–who will be facilitating ROWE migrations, contributing to the blog, and generally creating vision and value to push the movement forward wherever he can. In his first post, he challenges the idea that ROWE may only be applicable to Work…
Are We Finally Ready to Talk about Work-Life Issues in Terms of Social Change?
While reviewing Michelle Obama’s remarks from last week’s Workplace Flexibility Conference one of her introductory comments stuck out for us. Speaking to the challenges of “balancing our responsibilities as employees, as breadwinners, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives” Obama noted: It’s an issue that many folks have struggled with for so many years, and [...]
The BIG Announcement
The times they are a-changin’ – Bob Dylan The next step in the ROWE movement has been taken and Cali & Jody are EXCITED and READY! CultureRx is partnering with ICF International, a prime vendor with the federal government, to execute the ROWE pilot within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This means ROWE [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
