Archive for the ‘Flexibility’ Category
Dec 19 » by Cali & Jody
[Our guest post today is from Michael Reynolds. In addition to being a ROWE Consultant, Michael is President/CEO of SpinWeb – one of the first small businesses to become a ROWE. He is a speaker, trainer, and entrepreneur who has had extensive experience helping both business and non-profit clients utilize marketing and technology to become more productive.] SpinWeb became a [...]
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Posted in Flexibility, ROWE, Tracking Time, Vacation Policy, Work Environment | 14 Comments »
Dec 12 » by Cali & Jody
The alarm clock reads 3:30 am. You hear coughing and then crying in the other room. You get out the thermometer and sure enough, your daughter has a fever. You panic because you have NO SICK DAYS left at work. It’s a familiar scenario to many of us. Maybe you can take a personal day or [...]
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Posted in Balance, Flexibility, Health and wellness, Labor law, Management, News, Presenteeism, ROWE, Tracking Time, Work culture | 4 Comments »
Jul 5 » by Jody
Back in the days when dinosaurs walked the earth, someone came up with the brilliant idea to allow some people to telework. In 2011, people are talking about telework like it’s the most awesome, latest and greatest INNOVATIVE idea to hit planet earth in centuries! Here are the top 10 reasons Telework SUCKS big time. [...]
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Tags: Face time, Flexibility, grade school, life, permission, Sludge, telecommuting, Telework
Posted in Availability, Effective management, Face time, Flexibility, Management, Sludge, Telecommuting, Why Work Sucks, Work-Life | 9 Comments »
May 31 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: Flexibility, results, ROWE Approved Companies
Posted in Accountability, Availability, Effective management, Face time, Flexibility, Management, ROWE, ROWE Approved Companies, Strange and unfortunate | 18 Comments »
May 5 » by Cali & Jody
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. [...]
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Tags: Best Buy, control, Face time, flex time, flexible work schedules, ROWE, The Office of Personnel Management, The University of Minnesota, The Wall Street Journal
Posted in Accountability, Availability, Balance, Communication, Effective management, Face time, Flexibility, Future of ROWE, Government, Health and wellness, Management, Meetings, News, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Teams, Technology, Telecommuting, The book, Time, Work culture, Work Environment, Work redefined, Work-Life | 8 Comments »
May 3 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: accountability, clear expectations, Face time, Flexibility, Flextime, Measureable results, Probationary periods, results, ROWE, Telecommunting, Telework, USA Weekend Life & Style
Posted in Accountability, Availability, Communication, Effective management, Face time, Flexibility, Management, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Technology, Telecommuting, Time, Why Work Sucks, Work Environment, Work redefined, Work-Life | 11 Comments »
Apr 14 » by Michael Barata
Recently, Jody was on MPRnews talking about owning your job, focusing on results, and flexible schedule = oxymoron. “From Best Buy to The Gap to Hennepin County, the Results-Only Workplace Environment (ROWE) model is gaining momentum in Minnesota and abroad. Midmorning looks at the impact of a more flexible workplace on productivity, job satisfaction, family [...]
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Tags: accountability, Flexibility, Freedom, MPRNews, ROWE, schedules
Posted in Accountability, Communication, Flexibility, News, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Technology, Why Work Sucks | No Comments »
Mar 14 » by Michael Reynolds
If your company has migrated to a ROWE, then you already know how life-changing it can be. You now have control over your life, you are rewarded for productivity and efficiency, and you are treated like an adult. Life is good, right? As awesome as it is to work in a ROWE, no system is [...]
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Tags: accountability, Michael Reynolds, ROWE, Spinweb, time off, trust, vacation policies
Posted in Balance, Communication, Effective management, Flexibility, Health and wellness, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Time, Vacation Policy, Work redefined, Work-Life | 9 Comments »
Feb 22 » by Jody
Life is interesting. Each day is new, and wonderfully unpredictable. That’s why flexible work schedules suck. Flexible schedules are inflexible and ‘flexible schedule’ is an oxymoron. But I digress. SUNTELL adopted ROWE after their 1-day Fastrack Migration on August 31st, 2010. A few months later, one of their employees, Ryan, went on his honeymoon and [...]
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Tags: Flexibility, honeymoons, life, ROWE 1-Day Fastrack Migration, Sludge, stress, Suntell, teaming, vacation policies
Posted in Flexibility, Health and wellness, ROWE, ROWE Approved Companies, ROWE stories, Sludge, Stress, Teams, Work-Life | 4 Comments »
Jan 10 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: clear expectations, Eric Spitznagel, management, results, ROWE, sick time, Time, trust, work benefits
Posted in Face time, Flexibility, Future of ROWE, Health and wellness, Labor law, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Sick Time, Time, Why Work Sucks, Work-Life | 21 Comments »
