REVIEW: "Office funky. Manifesto remote work ", Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson

Seeing the title of the book, you, dear readers, exclaim: "Ahh, another book about a flexible schedule and bikes in the office!" And you will be wrong. The book, written by two female managers working in the company Best Buy, not talks about how cool bank employees to come Fridays at the office in jeans and managers at Microsoft Sales - work once a week from the cafe 2 blocks away from the office on their tablets with Windows 8. here in general no lines of that corporate nonsense that new and experienced employees "vparivayut" under the guise of "flexible hours and career opportunities." Instead, on your desk will be 250 pages of practical examples and step by step implementation of the system ROWE - "work, result-oriented." What would you say if you knew that the work can come at will and go as you want, and the "rule of 40 hours per week" would be forever buried in the crypts of corporate archives? You think it does not happen? Then it's time you get to read.

About the book

I prefer the original title of the book by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson

"Why work sucks and how to fix it" - but in the Russian publishing business literature "myth", that diligence book published in Russian in 2013Apparently considered this name too straight and sharp for domestic ear. It is not surprising: 80% of the ideas presented in the book, and if you will be introduced to life in the domestic companies, the introduction of this will be happen to "fight", where on one side of the fence will be grown men, and common sense, and on the other side - Big Head and Corporate Rules.

In the book there is no schemes and illustrations, but there are 8 stories managers with different levels of skills, different experiences and different problems and age. It is - in the history of e-commerce segment managers and employees of the company Best Buy, which has become a leader despite the fact that to date the vast majority of its employees working on the basis Result Only Work Environment - the environment where the decisive role is played by the result and timely execution of tasks, rather than the number of working hours. For example, you will learn why "owls" and "larks" can operate equally efficiently in the modern corporation, even if some will come to the office at 8 am, and the second - to 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Still learn as an employee of 55 years she was able to care for her sick mother, move to another state - and thus surpass all work plans, although the stable running "traditional" companies it would be dismissed as soon as it became necessary to moving. Or as in 30 can focus on themselves and their families every day, not just "enjoy" a small increase in pay every six months, and leave for 14 days every year.

Lessons from "Office funky"

1. The changing reality of the business itself pushes us to ensure that the measured results each employee, department or the entire team in the company, not the number of hours, "hatched" in the office. Are you competing for the title of "Iron Butt month"? Or is it like to have the work was the result?

2. ROWE can (and should) be used as the basis of modern management. Refer to the "lack of organization" and that "it does not happen" - then potentially not trust the people who work with you or for you. If you do not trust - then why do they have you work?

3. Meeting - is a universal corporate "toxin"That kills the time, nerves and gives nothing except endless transfusion of "water" and the potential negative exchange in search "Extreme." You continue to roam the peregovorkam and collect there people to 2-3 hours per day diverted from the real work?

4. "Office dregs" (gossip, jokes, intrigue, search for "extreme" and tracking of those who come in as / out) was the 90% of companies have a way of self-justification and masking the personal labor inefficiency. You continue to "spy" for the way the work your colleagues instead do their job?

5. ROWE allows you to be effective even for those in the traditional model of work would have to often take leave or even resign. And you continue to "overclock" the people who did not want to become "office hamsters," or is it assess the results rather than the presence in the work "cubicle"?

6. "Work - this is war": this postulate is doomed to extinctionBecause no one else wants to die of a heart attack at 30 and alcoholism due to work-related stress 40.

7. Time - your assets and your only; nobody has the right to condemn you for the way you build your working day and why you have time to fulfill all their tasks in 4 hours instead of 8.

8. ROWE is not suitable only for the dead and for those who are "firmly" stuck in an office chairTo obtain at least 40 hours for 5 days.

To read it?

management: Top-, middle-, and in general all kinds of managers - especially IT companies, web projects and intangible fields of activity. Read to "engage" with silly questions, "Why are you so left early / late come from?" And not to extradite the title of "Best Employee of the Month" on the basis of the greatest number of meetings held and "zasizhivaniya" to 23:00.

employees: to understand that "we - are not slaves, slaves -. we do not" Do you have the right to life and the attitude towards you, as professionals and adults. If the chief believes that the most important - is disabled on the social network, to put the time and make the accounting system all gather in the conference room at least once every 2 days, you have time to look for a new boss and a new, adequate space work. The planned economy and the "hard pochasovki" intangibles ended back in 2008, when I started this book is created.

People who are temporarily not working / getting ready to come to your first job in the company: not to succumb to the sweet tale of "flexible working" and. "future," The company has only one future: what will happen to you at work tomorrow. If tomorrow (yesterday, as the day after tomorrow and in general always) you will find a boss, dissatisfied glance at the clock and system "depremirovaniya" for each "sneeze" and every minute "nedosizhennogo" office time - maybe you do not need this Job?

The book is an excellent, affordable manner of presentation, with a fairly simple ideas, and obviously applying for it to be in almost any corporate library.

"Office funky. Manifesto remote work ", Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson

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