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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ROWE Is Success
Oh, you courageous rebel rousers you. I know talking about ROWE can be frustrating. I know explaining ROWE can feel like it’s you against the entire world of work. I also know every one of those conversations is necessary. Funny thing, I still go through the pains and strains of explaining ROWE during migrations and [...]
OPM ROWE Pilot Update
Last April, we announced the Office of Personnel Management would be piloting the Results-Only Work Environment for 400 employees. To refresh your memory, the OPM is the human resources agency for the executive branch of the federal government. Employees in the pilot were from Retirement Claims, The Office of the Director, Communications, and HR Services. [...]
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 [...]
Because It’s My Right!
I’m perplexed. Yes, it happens. There’s a belief people have the right to have a job. And because of that right, we need to protect them. Make sure that they are able to keep that job because of that right. If it’s a right to have a job, then does that mean even if I [...]
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 [...]
Cali & Jody…Yes They Can!
The ROWE movement hits Washington D.C.! Cali and Jody will be participating in The White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility scheduled for Wednesday, March 31 beginning at 1:15 and ending at 4:30 pm (EDT). That’s right! Cali and Jody will share the benefits of ROWE with lawmakers, other key figures, and First Lady Michelle Obama [...]
Pitfalls of Utah’s Four-Day Workweek
We wrote this post, with hope, back on 12/27/2009. Following is the original post and an update…. In August 2008, the state of Utah experimented with a four-day workweek in an effort to save energy costs. Out of the state’s 24,000 executive branch employees, 17,000 moved to a 10-hours/day, four-day workweek. Early reports were good, [...]
Sorry, But We're Out of Time
We haven’t heard the reports yet, but the first National Vacation Matters Summit was held in Seattle recently. The conference, backed by non-profit Take Back Your Time, was created to prompt a discussion about the death of the American vacation. Indeed, some of the facts and stats from TBYT’s website are eye-opening: The U.S. is [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
