Are People Really That Stupid?

Apparently, they are.

I'm talking about ROWE- Results Only Work Environments. The problem I have with is not with the concept but with the fact that people are JUST NOW figuring it out. How slow and stupid can we be?

Isn't the fact that being allowed, encouraged, to put your family first by employers results in more and better productivity common sense? It is to me.

Getting the work done without worrying about when and how is a MAJOR stress reducer as well as MAJOR productivity producer. Duh.

Think about it---if your employer encourages you to put your family first and, as long as deadlines are met and work is exemplary, tells you it doesn't matter whether you do the work at home or at the office or whether you do it from 9-5 or after midnight, wouldn't you WANT to work for that person? Wouldn't you WANT to produce exemplary work? Without question- YES!

Not to mention the fact that businesses can save on their overhead by lessening the numbers of desks AND office space. If an employee needs to come into the office, they can reserve a desk and come in. Even their utility bills would go down. Thus saving energy.

Sounds like a win-win-win to me. But then, I've always held to this belief. What annoys me is that the idea seems new and revolutionary to the work force. I suppose I should just be glad that they FINALLY adopted some common sense. But I can't help but wonder how much further along they'd be had they awakened decades ago. Seriously, I was thinking this back in the 70s and I'm sure I wasn't the first or only. It's not new. It's not revolutionary.

I think it's gaining notoriety because it now has a label. ROWE. Who knew that's all it would take for common sense to kick in?

If that's the case, I'm going to come up with a label for husbands. One that will have mine doing what he says he's going to do in a timely fashion. And for messy daughters who move back in and disrupt my neat and clean empty nest.

Or maybe I'll just change the locks. Ha!