From everyone here at CultureRx, we want to wish all the incredible Moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! Following is a story from Amy Maurer Creel, Marketing Director at Smart Mom, LLC. She is a Mom, a ROWEr, and so much more… Her story: Most people don’t realize I’m a successful entrepreneur with [...]
Archive for the ‘Balance’ Category
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…
Walk the Walk, Google!
We were stunned (STUNNED!) to read this story about how Google wants the city of Mountain View, CA to change its zoning laws so that more homes can be built near the tech giant’s headquarters. It seems that Google employees face such a tough commute (and have such limited access to public transportation) that the [...]
Professor X Wants ROWE
We recently highlighted Richard Stewart’s YouTube video that explored how a Results-Only Work Environment might translate to the world of education. Now we have a related tidbit, this time from a story from the Chronicle of Higher Education about how the next generation of professors view their jobs. The study is small but telling. Harvard [...]
Gen Y Wants Balance . . . Even in Sour Times
First, a shout out to Lisa Belkin of the New York Times who wrote about ROWE on her blog - the Motherlode. She highlights ROWE as a bright spot in an otherwise disturbing trend: The American Society of Human Resource Managers found that while the number of companies offering things like flextime, part-time and telecommuting schedules [...]
PBS Night Business Report
Working for Balance – Results-Only Work Environment How would you like to work in a place where there are no schedules, no mandatory meetings, and you have the freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want as long as you get your work done? Well, that’s the policy at Best Buy (BBY), thanks to [...]
Doctors Without Balance
We’ve already covered how the legal profession is having a serious internal conversation about balance. Now it seems this issue is affecting doctors as well. The word in the article that really jumped out at us was “sacrifice,” as in “[Australian Medical Association] president Rosanna Capolingua called on senior doctors to rethink their expectations of [...]
We [heart] workSMART
We were pleased to see what the good people at workSMART are trying to do. We like the spirit behind Work Proper Hours Day although we question whether this is a case of easier said than done. One person standing up for the right to their time makes for lonely work. (This is why it’s [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
