Best Buy’s balance
From Time magazine’s recent article on Best Buy:
The transition required a lot of deprogramming of old attitudes, and it produced a lot of pain. Some employees break down and cry in ROWE training sessions. “People in the baby-boom generation realize what they gave up to get ahead in the workplace, and a lot of times it’s their families. They realize that it doesn’t have to be that way,” says Ressler, her eyes tearing up. In particular, men thank her and Thompson, who run the sessions, for giving them permission to spend more time with their families. “They know now they can do it and not be judged,” says Thompson.
It’s a great article and worth reading. Wonder how they handle performance appraisals? :-)
> employees can work when and where they like, as long
> as they get the job done
Tech companies have been doing this for years. Thus you have the programmer who comes in at 4pm and works until 2am, the people who regularly work at home, the ones who come in x times a week and home office y times a week, etc. So this isn’t a new concept except giving it the ROWE moniker
But if it gets more corporations to do it, I’m all for it.