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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Fire Is Under Control
I was doing a session the other day – with OFFICE workers, and someone exclaimed “How would ROWE work for Firefighters?” It made me chuckle. Of course it’s difficult to imagine why firefighters would want to focus on RESULTS. Results-Only Work Environment is often confused with the Remote-Only Work Environment (companies that have tele-workers may [...]
Sign Up for ROWE Alerts and Goodies!
If you have not already signed up for our mailing list, be sure to do so! The form is at the bottom of this web page (and at the bottom of every page on the site—just scroll down). We are going to start using the mailing list to send heads-up on events, post important notices, [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
