Archive for the ‘Work Environment’ Category
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 »
Mar 28 » by Stacey Swanson
The 2011 Capella University Alliance roundtable series is kicking off and continuing with an engaging discussion on what organizations need to be doing to address the changing needs of the 2020 Workplace. And I am so excited to be the featured speaker. By the end of this roundtable, you will: Walk away with a better [...]
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Tags: 2020 Workplace, Best Buy, Capella University, GAP Outlet, Hennepin County, Human resources, ROWE
Posted in Effective management, Future of ROWE, Human Resources, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Speaking Events, Work culture, Work Environment, Work redefined, Workplace trends | 2 Comments »
Mar 6 » by Michael Barata
We always enjoy sharing ROWE stories with you. However, we also receive stories from non-ROWErs, which are often oozing with Sludge. Following is a Sludgey story with an optimistic ending. Kat Coolbaugh-Steiner, from Drums, PA, shares her story about Sludge, timing, and moving on…. Sludge. What a spectacular term for what I have been swimming [...]
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Tags: life, office politics, ROWE, Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution, workplace stress
Posted in Effective management, Health and wellness, Management, ROWE, ROWE stories, Sludge, Stress, The book, Why Work Sucks, Work culture, Work Environment, Work-Life | 19 Comments »
Dec 20 » by Cali & Jody
Mark Dixon, CEO of Regus, is a leader who gets it. And we like that a lot. Since founding Regus in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, he has achieved a formidable reputation for leadership and innovation. We like his history lesson about work, and also applaud the callout that coming in early, leaving late and generally [...]
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Tags: Mark Dixon, productivity, Regus, ROWE, social change
Posted in Effective management, Flexibility, Future of ROWE, ROWE mindset, Time, Work culture, Work Environment, Work redefined | 4 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 »
Oct 25 » by Jody
In a Forbes interview with Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld, she spoke of choices we need to make when balancing our work and lives. Specifically she states, “. . . if there’s an important event in your child’s life or there is something that you need to do, do it. I think you can do it [...]
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Tags: Forbes, Irene Rosenfeld, Jody Thompson, Kraft, results, ROWE, work life choices
Posted in Effective management, Flexibility, Management, ROWE, Stress, Time, Why Work Sucks, Work culture, Work Environment, Work-Life | 21 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 »
Oct 14 » by Cali & Jody
We are SO EXCITED to announce the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer has signed on to go ROWE. Their 550 employees will become the first agency in our nation’s Capitol government system to be a Results-Only Work Environment. We congratulate this courageous and forward-thinking decision to change the game. Following is an interview [...]
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Tags: 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 | 9 Comments »
