[Guest post today by Robby Slaughter. Robby runs a process improvement consulting company in Indianapolis, Indiana.] The other day, I was chatting with a group of people at a networking group. These are almost all small business owners who are scratching out a living by pounding the pavement, chasing opportunities, and working hard to generate [...]
Archive for the ‘Face time’ Category
OMG. WTF? Pt.4
I couldn’t wait to read Michelle Symons article, Why Project Management and ROWE Don’t Mix, because my first thought was ‘why can’t project managers focus on results?’ ROWE is about one thing: achieving results. How an employee or team accomplishes results is completely up to them. The method in which meet, collaborate and hit deadlines [...]
OMG. WTF? Pt. 3
A company that adopted a ROWE decided to not be ROWE anymore. Ok – sorry. Is anyone laughing hysterically? If you’ve been watching our ROWE Approved Companies page, one logo disappeared. We won’t name the company, but you may know who it is. Their case study was AMAZING!! Here’s a snippet: Work Performance Indicator Findings [...]
Stop Using The F Word
ROWE is not flexibility. ROWE is not a flexible work arrangement. ROWE is not flex-time. The only “F word” that best describes ROWE is freedom. We understand people who have no control over how they work or are forever asking permission to live their life may see “flexibility” as a ray of hope. It’s not. [...]
OMG. WTF? Pt. 2
Jenny Rough wrote a nice little ditty in the USA Weekend Life & Style section titled ‘Want to Telework? Do Your Homework’. I read it, banged my head against the wall and quickly looked at the calendar to make sure it was still 2011. Let’s take a gander at the suggested tips. Tip #1: Dissect [...]
Being Available 24/7 ROCKS!!
Whenever we talk about a ROWE people exclaim to us “but I don’t want to be available 24/7!” Let me take a moment to welcome everyone again to 2011. Back in the 1950s, the boss sat in his office with his secretary outside his door. S/he used something called ‘while you were out’ pink slips [...]
Sick Time Sucks
I wanted to comment on this article by Eric Spitznagel when it came out December 10th, but I poked both my eyes out after reading it and had to get an eye transplant. The subtitle ‘As an alarming number of workers play hooky, corporations are clamping down — and calling in the detectives’ actually made [...]
How To Have Water Cooler Conversations in a ROWE
I was amused by a recent article about the return of “core hours” and I very much enjoyed Jody’s response to it. One point in the article was that “water cooler” conversations were important and that losing that part of the workday is a negative aspect of going ROWE. Well, I’d like to share three [...]
OMG. WTF??
The other day I read Dr. David G. Javitch’s blog post, Changing Trends: Rethinking Telecommuting? Returning to a “core time” mandate could resolve some of the problems created by flexible schedules and remote employees, and immediately determined Dr. Javitch’s thinking is the problem. Not where people work from or when they choose to work. When [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
