Michael Reynolds, President & CEO of SpinWeb, shares his insights about ROWE, technology, and supporting freedom! Top 10 ROWE office technologies Part of the fun of working in a ROWE is creating an infrastructure that supports the personal freedom that is characteristic of a ROWE. No longer do workers need to be chained to a [...]
Archive for the ‘Face time’ Category
Flexibility Doesn’t Impress Me
Whenever we talk to a company about a ROWE, we often get the response ‘we’re flexible’. However, the nanosecond someone starts mentioning ‘flexibility’, they’ve shifted focus away from results. The difference between the ‘we’re flexible’ work environment and a ROWE is the language, focus and attitudes are totally different. Because in a ROWE, it’s all [...]
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 [...]
The Social Side of Remote Work
Interesting piece from CNN.com about how IBM is handling the drastic increase in remote workers. IBM leadership has brought back the IBM Club, a work/social organization that used to be an integral part of the corporate culture: The clubs, now active in several hundred cities in 30 countries, bring employees together for family events like [...]
Blizzard Shmizzard
I live in northeastern PA and as I write this blogpost, I am also watching my car be devoured by this insane blizzard. It’s crazy out there! However, I am at ease. Because thats how I ROWE. And yet… I realize many of you were shown no leniency, no compassion, no common sense from your [...]
On Technology and Loneliness
Interesting article in Newsweek about the uptick in loneliness in America. As you would imagine technology shoulders some of the blame (the opening line about the meaninglessness of Facebook friends almost writes itself) but we were also struck by two other passages and how they relate to a Results-Only Work Environment. First this: Though more [...]
Left Behind
Change is painful, isn’t it? We’re not surprised at all at the findings in this study. We see it everyday when we speak at companies with traditional work environments. People who have less freedom resent the people who have more. But what interests us about this piece is the paragraph toward the end that proposes [...]
The Myth of "Face Time"
Here’s an article from the Boston Globe about how companies are realizing that “face time” is more important in the digital age. For the co-presidents of a Needham, MA company, the solution is “Home Week”. During Home Week no boss can travel, there a “deep dive” executive planning meeting, a company-wide pub night, blah, blah, [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
