Subscribe to RSS 2.0"Work isn't a place you go, it's something you do."
I've been getting on very well with working from home because I am both a morning and night person, and less of an early afternoon person. It means I can get up early(ish) and get straight to work, without wasting my productive hours on a commute (although I do think an early morning cycle is a great way to wake up). Then I can get a bit lazy around lunchtime, make some food, perhaps, as has happened a few times since Andy gave me the complete Buffy DVD set (all 7 series. Yes, I am married to the perfect man) even watch an episode of Buffy whilst having my soup, or go for a walk or meet Rob for lunch in Chipping Norton. Then I can do easy tasks until I take advantage of the fact that my brain kicks back into gear around seven in the evening, and have another blast at the important stuff until bedtime. All of which is why this post was particularly interesting - about companies who are realising that giving people the freedom to work in the way that suits them best is a sensible idea. Have a read. I bet your company doesn't work like that. Maybe you should forward it to your boss.
(Via Seth Godin, of course, the god.)
Comments: 5
sorry, this has nothing to do with work, cooking or Seth Godin, but you being a Buffy fan an' all, have you seen who's in Torchwood now...?
Posted by: Sarah Bower on January 20, 2008 06:18 PM
Hi Emma
I'm like you - useless in the afternoon. Would love a morning/evening job (oops, I suppose that's what writing is!)
BTW posted my whole novel to your submissions address. should I have received any acknowledgement?
Alison
Posted by: Alison on January 20, 2008 10:58 PM
Sarah - best see Rob's post above!
Alison - thanks for the submission. Anna, who's on holiday at the moment, will reply once she's back next week.
Posted by: Em on January 21, 2008 08:23 AM
I wish my workplace practiced ROWE. I would have a 2-hour workday.
Posted by: KatharineC on January 23, 2008 01:55 PM
Hi Emma,
This sort of total flexibility and working by results is radical, but it's not new. When I'm not writing I'm a work-life balance expert and I've put similar sorts of working arrangements in place in all sorts of organisations. There are limitations to total freedom, though, when you're running a customer-facing service, for instance (like a call centre or social services), dealing with clients (legal firms, NHS etc) or simply requiring a lot of personal interaction with colleagues. But basically allowing people the maximum possibly autonomy over how and where they work, and taking responsibility as a team for producing the required results, always creates massive business benefits.
Like Alison (above) I've submitted a manuscript to you, partly on the encouragement of Sarah (Bower, above) who says you've been brilliant as publishers for her - must be something to do with the flexible working, always gets great results.
Cheers,
Lucy
Posted by: Lucy McCarraher on January 27, 2008 09:47 AM