Archive for the ‘Work-Life’ Category
Feb 22 » by Jody
Life is interesting. Each day is new, and wonderfully unpredictable. That’s why flexible work schedules suck. Flexible schedules are inflexible and ‘flexible schedule’ is an oxymoron. But I digress. SUNTELL adopted ROWE after their 1-day Fastrack Migration on August 31st, 2010. A few months later, one of their employees, Ryan, went on his honeymoon and [...]
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Tags: Flexibility, honeymoons, life, ROWE 1-Day Fastrack Migration, Sludge, stress, Suntell, teaming, vacation policies
Posted in Flexibility, Health and wellness, ROWE, ROWE Approved Companies, ROWE stories, Sludge, Stress, Teams, Work-Life | 4 Comments »
Jan 10 » by Jody
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 [...]
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Tags: clear expectations, Eric Spitznagel, management, results, ROWE, sick time, Time, trust, work benefits
Posted in Face time, Flexibility, Future of ROWE, Health and wellness, Labor law, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Sick Time, Time, Why Work Sucks, Work-Life | 21 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 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 20 » by Michael Barata
Laura Goodrich, Innovator, Author, Expert Speaker, Radio/TV/Film Host, and Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change hosts the radio show FutureWork, a part of Linked2Leadership Radio Network. FutureWork is a collaboration of the host, the guests and you, and the audience to create meaningful solutions to workforce challenges and opportunities. FutureWork will feature reoccurring [...]
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Tags: Cali Ressler, FutureWork Radio, Jody Thompson, Laura Goodrich, ROWE
Posted in Flexibility, Government, Health and wellness, News, ROWE, Work-Life | No Comments »
Oct 11 » by Jody
If you’re feeling overworked, burned out, and overall disengaged, we have a solution for you to make your booboo all better. The Ice Cream Man! Remember when you were a kid and you could hear the Ice Cream truck coming? You’d run inside frantically looking for loose change – or if you were lucky, you’d [...]
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Tags: adults, control, ice cream, results, ROWE, scream room, Time, workplace amenities
Posted in Balance, Effective management, Flexibility, Health and wellness, ROWE, ROWE mindset, Technical change, Time, Work culture, Work Environment, Work-Life | 21 Comments »
Sep 29 » by Cali
Michael Salamey shares 3 personal challenges he did not expect when he became part of a Results Only Work Environment.
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Tags: 3 challenges of going ROWE, Michael Salamey, ROWE, ROWE challenges
Posted in Miscellaneous, ROWE mindset, ROWE stories, Stress, Work-Life | 12 Comments »
Sep 27 » by Jody
When my sister was 12 years old she wanted to carry the cross up the aisle during the church service on Sunday (just like the altar boys). She was told that girls couldn’t carry the cross up the aisle. Huh? She thought maybe God had some rule she didn’t know about. She thought maybe if [...]
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Tags: God, ROWE, social change, status quo, Why?
Posted in Future of ROWE, ROWE, Uncategorized, Why Work Sucks, Work redefined, Work-Life, Workplace trends | 6 Comments »
