Do you wish you could?
- Work when you want to
- Work where you want
- Work how you want
- And get paid for results, not the hours
I was reading how BestBuy Corporate offices, Banana Republic and Gap are using a work-flow management process called ROWE Results-Only Work Environment?
Rowe’s mission statement:
- We do not post office hours or core hours. Our employees know where to be when they need to be there. We don’t have to dictate it. Everybody has complete control over how they spend their time. All the time.
- We do not track time for our Exempt/Salaried workforce. We track work getting done.
- There are no hours-worked expectations for exempt/salaried employees. We do not talk about how many hours we work or demand 40, 50, or 60 hours out of people.
- We do not have a tele-work policy, handbook or tele-work rules. Tele-work is so 1970’s. Work is just work. It doesn’t need a location label. And, we don’t have flextime.
- We do not track PTO (vacation, sick time, personal time, holiday time). It’s not a benefit. Unlimited paid time off as long as the work gets done is the contemporary benefit that matters.
- Nobody asks permission to go to an appointment, event or any other personal activity. Ever. And they don’t have to inform the team or management in an effort to be polite.
- We have adopted the Sludge Eradication Strategy – NO SLUDGE in our workplace.
- We NEVER put ‘mandatory’ on a meeting invite. Every meeting is optional.
- We don’t have any limits put on how or when we can work: “No E-Mail Fridays” and “No Meeting Wednesdays” don’t exist in our organization.
Impressive and I want to learn more, although I don’t agree with tele-working being ‘so 1970s’. In an earlier blog post , we point out that in effect, we are all tele-working.
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