ROWEing business towards success
Picture this:
You don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn every morning. You can have a lie in. If you don’t feel like commuting into work, don’t. Go shopping, go to the movies, visit a friend or do some housework. Only work when you feel like it. As long as you achieve the work results that are expected of you, your time is your own. Spend quality time with your family and friends, finish your chores and admin, focus on your hobbies while delivering good results and advancing your career. You have work life balance and the company also prospers. Everyone lives happily ever after.
A fairy tale? Bliss? Utopia? This is a true story. It is called a ROWE and it works at Best Buy. ROWE is a Results Only Work Environment. In fact, it works so well that Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, who implemented the system at Best Buy, have written a book to encourage other companies to do it too. Their book is called ‘Why Work Sucks and How To Fix It.’
It is not pie-in-the-sky stuff. People are talking more and more about focusing on outputs, results only and giving the new work force the freedom and flexibility which they seem to crave. In the new world of work, more power is clearly devolving from the organisation to individuals because workers control the most lucrative means of production – their brains. Leading management thinkers have predicted that temporary networks of talented people to work on projects will be more productive than the hierarchical, command and control hierarchy that characterized the industrial age workplace. If this is how the world of work will look, then a move towards a results only work environment could be very effective.
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