Five Reasons HR Should Love ROWE
August 25th, 2008 by Cali & Jody
Coming from the HR world, we know firsthand how ROWE can make the lives of HR professionals in an office environment much more purposeful and much less stressful. Here are some of our favorite things that change for HR folks once ROWE becomes a reality for them and the teams they support:
- You won’t need to enforce the Tardiness Policy anymore.
- You won’t need to hound people for their vacation requests, when all they want to be doing is preparing for their vacations and making sure everything is taken care of or covered.
- You’ll get to focus on business strategy the way you want to - because you won’t be in the muck of “So-and-so has come in 10 minutes late for the last week and is leaving early, too. Can’t you do something about that?”
- You won’t need to send out 17 e-mails reminding people to complete their goal-setting before the year begins. Employees will actually be begging to set clear goals with their managers - we’re not kidding!
- You won’t be the brunt of the Why We Hate HR conversations anymore. Because you’ll be part of making work not suck - instead of making it suck more.
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Event news: The Twin Cities Human Resources Association, in co-sponsorship with Ideation Consulting, is presenting a great event for managers and HR professionals on Sept. 11th. We’ll be doing the closing keynote and Marcus Buckingham is opening the day. To learn more, click here.
The other day I told managers about a UK study saying that 1 in 8 managers prefer going to the dentist than doing performance reviews. They laughed.
Then I tried to encourage them to do the mid-year review. They seemed to be listening.
My kingdom for a ROWE
That’s one of the things I hated about HR too. You’re put in this awkward position enforcing the company’s rules, even if you think those rules are silly.