While reading an article at NYTimes.com called Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent, I came across an interesting concept.
First of all, the post is about how time is spent at work. With the average workday comprising of a reported 1.5 hours of actual work, Lisa Belkin asks the question, ‘Where does the time go?’
The big idea is that, like athletes, people work better in short bursts rather than long work days. Some workplaces are taking this to heart and providing a more relaxed attitude to attendance and stronger implications of results.
It’s called ROWE: Results Only Work Environment.
This means that no matter when you come into work, for what ever amount of time, as long as the work gets done, everyone is happy with you.
Headquarters of Best Buy in Minneapolis have put this policy into practice.
There workers can come in at four or leave at noon, or head for the movies in the middle of the day, or not even show up at all. It’s the work that matters, not the method. And, not incidentally, both output and job satisfaction have jumped wherever ROWE is tried.
Would this work at your job?
Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent – [NYTimes]
Just like a typical NFL game. There is typically 6-7 minutes of actual football played in a 3 hour game. Average 6 seconds per play x average 70 plays per game.
I love this idea, especially being an ADDer. I definitely work in spurts.
The only problem is that people in an organization usually interact with each other. Most of us don’t do our jobs in isolation from others. A related notion, flex-time, usually requires attendance during “core hours”. It would really slow things down if people couldn’t pop in to someone’s office and ask an essential 30-second question. We’d have to put a lot of stuff aside, waiting for people who we never know when they will show up.
Silvia
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I’m a software developer and for as long as I can remember my best work happens at 10pm.
The only problem with work that is that is going to bed at 2a and getting up at 6am to sit my butt in a chair just because someone needs to see me there has always been off kilter in my world.
I love the ROWE movement and can’t want for more companies to step aboard.
I love the idea of ROWE so much that I created a job board for ROWE “rowejobopenings dot com” so ROWE companies please sign up your jobs.