Comments on: Best Buy’s Results-Only Work Environment http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/ Know More HR. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:52:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scott Semple http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-3641 Scott Semple Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:00:05 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/#comment-3641 As a committed lifestyle-over-workstyle business owner, I was really looking forward to the ROWE book. I hoped that it would help me to restructure my business as a Results-Only Work Environment for everyone that works at our office. In the end, I was hugely disappointed. “Cali and Jody” have put their consulting careers ahead of the ROWE idea itself, and have handicapped its development by publishing a 10-page memo in a 200-page form. The tagline for the book is ““No Schedules, No Meetings — No Joke”, but due to the complete lack of detail, the tag line should be: “No Tips, No Detail — No Help.” More of my thoughts on the ROWE book can be read here: www.whyrowesucks.com. As a committed lifestyle-over-workstyle business owner, I was really looking forward to the ROWE book. I hoped that it would help me to restructure my business as a Results-Only Work Environment for everyone that works at our office.

In the end, I was hugely disappointed. “Cali and Jody” have put their consulting careers ahead of the ROWE idea itself, and have handicapped its development by publishing a 10-page memo in a 200-page form. The tagline for the book is ““No Schedules, No Meetings — No Joke”, but due to the complete lack of detail, the tag line should be: “No Tips, No Detail — No Help.”

More of my thoughts on the ROWE book can be read here: http://www.whyrowesucks.com.

]]> By: Frank Roche http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-2138 Frank Roche Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:16:13 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/#comment-2138 Hi Michael, I was listening to NPR on the way home today, and they were talking about how more and more companies NEED to get with the telecommuting program. They were talking about it in the context of the bridge collapse in SF Bay....but were saying that being at work was a bit of a waste. Your story is a powerful one...crazy how that stuff works with face time. Giving good meeting...beauty! Hi Michael, I was listening to NPR on the way home today, and they were talking about how more and more companies NEED to get with the telecommuting program. They were talking about it in the context of the bridge collapse in SF Bay….but were saying that being at work was a bit of a waste.

Your story is a powerful one…crazy how that stuff works with face time. Giving good meeting…beauty!

]]> By: Michael Matejcek http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-2137 Michael Matejcek Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:43:20 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/#comment-2137 Hooray for Best Buy (and especially for their employees). I used to work in an office where the boss left at 5:30, and the six of us who worked for her left at 5:31. We felt a little sheepish when she forgot her car keys one day and came back to the office ... our little hallway meeting on the way to the parking lot was terribly uncomfortable. Oddly, none of us discussed it after that -- we all just chose to keep up the charade. Thankfully, logging "seat time" to appear productive is becoming obsolete. Just showing up, and "giving good meeting" are no longer relevant. Hooray for Best Buy (and especially for their employees).

I used to work in an office where the boss left at 5:30, and the six of us who worked for her left at 5:31. We felt a little sheepish when she forgot her car keys one day and came back to the office … our little hallway meeting on the way to the parking lot was terribly uncomfortable. Oddly, none of us discussed it after that — we all just chose to keep up the charade.

Thankfully, logging “seat time” to appear productive is becoming obsolete. Just showing up, and “giving good meeting” are no longer relevant.

]]> By: Telecommuting to Career Oblivion? at KnowHR Blog http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Telecommuting to Career Oblivion? at KnowHR Blog Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:51:12 +0000 http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/12/05/best-buys-results-only-work-environment/#comment-681 [...] Yikes! A month ago I wrote about Best Buy’s Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), which reports that productivity is up 35% over the traditional “face time” approach to business. BusinessWeek says ROWE focuses on getting things done, not where they are done: “The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.” [...] [...] Yikes! A month ago I wrote about Best Buy’s Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), which reports that productivity is up 35% over the traditional “face time” approach to business. BusinessWeek says ROWE focuses on getting things done, not where they are done: “The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.” [...]

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