Plenty of people have jumped on the bandwagon over the past year to bash Tim Ferriss’ bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek.
Jonathan Mead called the promise of a 4-hour work week a lie. Penelope Trunk said the week Tim Ferriss actually works a 4-hour work week will be a cold week in hell.
They’re both right, but that isn’t the point.
A results-only work environment (or ROWE) is a radical new way of working that focuses on results instead of face time. ROWE in practice means “each person is free to do whatever they want, whenever they want as long as the work gets done.”
I recently wrote about the ROWE concept and speculated about why ROWE hasn’t been implemented more widely.
After that first ROWE article, I received a number of questions about the specifics of implementing such a program. How exactly are results measured in a ROWE? What does a typical day look like for someone working in a ROWE?
To get some qualified answers, I collected questions and contacted Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson. Cali and Jody created ROWE originally for Best Buy and explained it in the book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It.
Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Chris Garrett of chrisg.com. If you have a story about lifestyle design, contact me about writing a guest post yourself.
My brother-in-law’s best friend just died at a young age leaving everyone connected to him frozen in shock.
The saddest part for me is that he was largely estranged from his family and that he had put his life on hold. He lived life like he was poor, even though he had plenty of money coming in. It was like he was going to enjoy himself “one day”.
Just before he died he had finally started doing things he enjoyed, buying a motorbike and doing up his house. Still, he seemed to be locked into thinking that now was for working, and later was when he would have time for living.
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