[Guest post written by Michael Reynolds] Social media in the workplace is (still) a popular topic of discussion. While those of us living in our enlightened bubbles see social media as just everyday communication, there are still many organizations that are struggling to figure out how to use it, how to leverage it for business advantages, and how [...]
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My Employees Aren’t Working From Home. They’re Watching the Olympics!
Image: Flickr user law_keven As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, many organisations are thinking about the difficult problem of getting employees into the office. Consider the enormous changes that will be coming to Town (according to the Daily Mail): Around 5.3 million people are expected to turn up for the 16 days of the [...]
5 Changes to Employee Benefits That Will Save You Money
Companies are getting really creative with their employee benefits: to save money, to attract talent, or to retain talent. There’s no doubt about it, businesses have a hard job of finding the right mix of benefits to keep employees happy, but also meet the bottom line. We’re not about to get into health care and [...]
Happy 2012 from the ROWE-bots
May you all have a safe and happy New Year! Aren’t you glad you don’t have a boss like this… or do you?
2011 Roundup: A Great Year for Results-Only Companies
2011 has been an awesome year for ROWE. We’ve worked with many forward-thinking organizations who are leading dramatic change in the workplace. We want to take a moment here at the end of the year to look back and recognize some of the folks we’ve worked with this year. While this is not the entire [...]
9 Ways to Kill Job Performance
Our philosophy about work has always been focused on one thing: results. Where and when work gets done is entrusted to each employee. And trust us, employees will perform and deliver amazing results with this freedom. Sadly, many businesses who are operating under the old model of work are still doing these 9 things that [...]
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 [...]
The Line
Going ROWE: The Twin-Cities-based Workplace Revolution Marches On The company CultureRX didn’t exactly start up out of nowhere. Founders Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson tested the foundational concept of the results-only work environment, or ROWE, in the real-world incubator of Best Buy headquarters. Moving those 3,800 employees into results-only mode still counts as CultureRX’s largest [...]
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 [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
