Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

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Results-Only Work Environment

ROWE – Where people are paid for productivity, not time spent “at work”

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Results-Only Work Environment is a management strategy where employees are evaluated on performance, not presence. In a ROWE, people focus on results and only results – increasing the organization’s performance while cultivating the right environment for people to manage all the demands in their lives...including work. Learn more »

From the ROWE Blog

No Thanks.

Jun 8 » by jody

Hey, would you like to be free? No, thanks.

Would you like to live the life you’ve always dreamed of? No, thanks.

Would you like to be unshackled from the chains of the 8-5 workplace? Cubeland? An outdated industrial age model? From PRISON?

No, thanks.

How about some ice cream? Yes, please!

We’re always surprised and a little bit saddened by the fact that when people are offered the ultimate gift – really, the American Dream – they look at us, with conviction and say ‘no thanks’. It’ll never work. I like to get up every day at the break of dawn, sit in commuter hell, and watch the clock tick by until I sit in commuter hell again. Stress is good!

Have we become so institutionalized by the traditional notion of work that we’ve forgotten HOW to be free? Think for ourselves – BE ourselves?

A manager that ventured into a ROWE with her team told us this story:

A farmer was raising wild stallions.

When he died, he gave the farm to his daughter – a ‘hippy’ throwback from the 1960s. The free-spirited daughter could not bear to see the wild stallions living in a way they were not meant to live – caged. She went out to the coral, and opened the gate. WIDE. And the stallions galloped happily out into the great unknown.

Not quite.

The stallions remained in the coral. In fact, they stayed as far away from the ‘opening’ as possible. They had forgotten how to be free. They would rather stay in the corral – comforted by the status quo – rather than venture out to discover who they really are – or could become.

Have we forgotten too?

Tell us about your corral. Is someone telling you when you can come and go, if you can come and go, and why you shouldn’t come and go at will?

Life is short. It’s time to open the gate.

Be free. goROWE!