As of late, I have been reading articles about "Generation Y" and the workplace. Of course I am interested-- I mean I am a part of Generation Y and I am employed. While browsing the Internet, I learned about a new policy that companies are implementing to retain their young employees known as ROWE. This acronym stands for Results Only Work Environment. With ROWE, you get all these crazy wonderful incentives/benefits such as, my personal favorite, UNLIMITED PAID VACATION. Its the best idea since slice bread, or roll over minutes (before minutes became unlimited of course). ROWE stops the petty hour clocking and instead, evaluates your work based on the results you put out. What I can't understand, is why companies have waited this long to do this. It makes perfect sense to me to only be concerned with the quality and turn-over of one's work. But, you know we work in America and here they are more concerned with running an adult day care ( I digress).
ROWE is exactly what I need, I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel confident in saying that most of the people I know need and want ROWE too. Think about all the time you can spend living your life---which is what we should be doing--- while getting work done at the same time. ROWE is a clear illustration of how great life can be. I am proud of our generation for making it clear that we don't just want sub par work conditions and since companies need us, they most learn to work WITH us. I like the sound of with instead of " I work FOR". ROWE has proven that employees even work better knowing that they have the opportunity to take vacation with out feeling guilt and have the option to work from home. Employees come back to work all happy and shit 'still smelling like vacation" and they are motivated to get projects done. Not only does ROWE allow you to kick your feet up, but you can leave work early ( something else I NEED in my life). Don't you just hate finishing all your work in like an hour and then sitting around for 7 more dying? You know what I'm talking about. You can usually tell when this happens according to your Twitter timeline -- its that period of the day when everyone is tweeting more than usual and those tweets sound like suicide notes or read something like " its only 10:30...AM * insert blue faced emoji with the home alone expression*". Well comrades, be depressed no more, ROWE is here to save us all. With a ROWE policy, you can leave work as long as you have your work done. All of this sounds too good to be true, so good that I spent some time browsing the web for proof that such a thing exist. Behold, I present you with links about the policy so you can read for yourself AND a wonderful little list of the companies who have implemented ROWE thus far.
There are downfalls ---sad I know--- ROWE is relatively new so there are a number of places who are not hip to the game yet. But, I feel pretty hopeful that given a few more years everyone will be able to ROWE out...hahaha get it?? Ok, I'm corny. SO WHAT!
Be love, peace and light ya'll.
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