Corrections
February 4th, 2008 by Cali & Jody
In our last post, did we say Tom Brady? Of course, we meant Eli Manning.
Question: Did last night’s upset lead to an increase in lateness and absenteeism today or a decrease? And what about how awful the Super Bowl ads were this year? Did the astoundingly crappy ads (more talking babies!) affect attendance? Workforce Institute, can you please get on that? (We’re just teasing. We appreciate your picking up our post and we’ll try not to freak out on you so much next time.)
Correction number two is less of a correction, and more of an adjustment. As much as we loved the Sad Cubicle Man on the old cover of our book, we’re much more excited about the crispness of the new cover. We’ve been doing our best not to have this be a promo blog, but we thought we’d take a moment to announce that the book is in the can and on schedule to come out in early May. We encourage everyone to read it, provided of course that it doesn’t make you late for work.
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Are you crazy? The superbowl ads this year were great… how could you not enjoy the baby ad? I thought they were far far better than last year, and I believe ESPN is reporting that the ads are getting an amazing reaction from consumers. Apparently the baby ad is the most viewed ad of all, according to tivo more people are watching that ad than have actually seen the superbowl. Pretty amazing.
I have to agree with Aaron- the ETrade baby ads were great!
I like the new cover as well!
Those baby ads were terrible. I had to force myself to turn away. I guess from someone with kids, the site of a kid spitting up isn’t “funny”.
The book cover looks great. Keep the blog going. You both have very insightful points that I can take something from back to my work.
And I did notice the Brady comment last time and thought you along with everyone were under-estimating those Giants!
I would like to see some kind of database or job bank of companies that use ROWE or a similar workplace environment. It’s great to talk about how work is changing, but it would be helpful to know which companies are actually using these newer business models.
We’d love to see a database of ROWE companies, but right now only Best Buy Corporate is an authentic ROWE. But that’s going to change. We hope that our book and this blog will start a real conversation about what people need from work. We’re also creating a starter kit so other companies can make the transformation from a traditional work environment into a ROWE. We can’t do it alone. This change isn’t going to come from the top. It’s not going to come from a piece of legislation. People have to demand it and fight for it. We hope you will join us.