Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Apr 18 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: 1950's workplace, 9-5 workday, choice, mobile technology, resposnse time, virtual self
Posted in Availability, Communication, Face time, Health and wellness, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Technology, Work redefined, Work-Life | 8 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 »
Dec 6 » by Cali & Jody
Michael Reynolds, President & CEO of SpinWeb, talks about the impact of ROWE on productivity and morale, our upcoming book, “Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution“, and fireplaces…. The new paperback version of “Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution” hits the streets December 15th, but [...]
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Tags: Michael Reynolds, ROWE, Spinweb, Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It
Posted in Book news, Effective management, ROWE, ROWE stories, Technology, The book, Why Work Sucks, Work redefined, Work-Life | 8 Comments »
Nov 23 » by Jody
I was worried about the Holidays coming up and how we were all going to achieve work/life balance during the bustle of the next two months. Was someone going to drop work/life balance in our Christmas stockings? Or, maybe we’d win the lottery and wouldn’t have to work. That’s possible! But then I saw Tav [...]
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Tags: apps, Black Friday, iPhone, ROWE, Thanksgiving, time managment, vacation time
Posted in Balance, Management, Overtime, ROWE, Technology, Time, Work-Life | 12 Comments »
Nov 20 » by Michael Barata
Mark Barnes, who is being featured in our “ROLE On” series, is back with another update about his Results-Only Learning Environment. Today, he explains how he and the students evaluated assignments and projects… At the end of our first quarter in a Results Only Learning Environment, the time came to assign a letter grade to [...]
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Tags: Dan Pink, education, innovation, Mark Barnes, paperless classroom, results-only learning environment, ROWE, teaching
Posted in Education, Future of ROWE, ROWE, ROWE stories, Technology | 15 Comments »
Nov 16 » by Jody
I couldn’t have been more tickled pink to run across a blog on America’s Happiest Companies. What a profound notion that happy employees perform better. Yay, research! I’d like to give a big ‘Knit One, Hurl Two’ to the forward-thinking companies listed in this blog. They are so forward-thinking that they’ve come up with new [...]
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Tags: Adobe, American Express KPMG, CultureRx, Flexibility, focus on results, Freedom, Google, IBM, ROWE
Posted in Balance, Flexibility, Health and wellness, ROWE, Technology, Work culture, Work Environment, Work-Life | 22 Comments »
Nov 9 » by Michael Reynolds
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 [...]
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Tags: common sense, Jody Thompson, Michael Reynolds, ROWE, Spinweb, teaming, watercoolers
Posted in Face time, Flexibility, Management, Meetings, ROWE, Technology, Telecommuting, Work redefined | 10 Comments »
Nov 1 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: communication, Flexibility, remore access, results, ROWW, telecommuting
Posted in Effective management, Face time, Flexibility, Management, ROWE, Technology, Work redefined | 56 Comments »
Oct 22 » by Cali & Jody
The latest update from D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer highlights metrics in a ROWE. You know, measuring the productivity of employees based on performance as opposed to counting hours or by the temperature of one’s chair. An excerpt: Defining “individual deliverables,” as Bryan Sivak, Washington, D.C.’s Chief Technology Officer calls them, is a [...]
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Tags: D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, government, OCTO, ROWE, ROWE migration, social change
Posted in Effective management, Future of ROWE, Government, Management, ROWE, ROWE mindset, ROWE stories, Technology, Time, Work culture, Work Environment, Work redefined, Workplace trends | 2 Comments »
Oct 19 » by Michael Barata
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 [...]
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Tags: efficient workplace, Freedom, Michael Reynolds, mobile technology, ROWE, Spinweb, support
Posted in Face time, Flexibility, Future of ROWE, Management, ROWE, ROWE mindset, ROWE stories, Technology, Work culture, Work Environment, Work redefined | 14 Comments »
