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Best Buy Institutes Extreme Flex Time
s31523 writes "The company I work at has a flex time policy where basically, you can come in and leave within a window of time, as long as you are in the office during 'core' hours (10am-2pm). Best Buy has gone extreme, they have completely banished traditional views of office hours. Citing a preference for results over time invested, the company has completely done away with schedules. No mandatory meetings. No impression-management hustles." From the article: "Another thing about this experiment: It wasn't imposed from the top down. It began as a covert guerrilla action that spread virally and eventually became a revolution. So secret was the operation that Chief Executive Brad Anderson only learned the details two years after it began transforming his company. Such bottom-up, stealth innovation is exactly the kind of thing Anderson encourages. The Best Buy chief aims to keep innovating even when something is ostensibly working. '[The 'results-only work environment'] was an idea born and nurtured by a handful of passionate employees,' he says. 'It wasn't created as the result of some edict.'" Sheesh. I work from home and even I have a schedule. Here's hoping it catches on.
A while back someone gave me a $50 Best Buy gift card. So off I went, hot to spend it... ... and even with $50 off, EVERY computer component was STILL more expensive than damnear *anywhere* else.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
How in the world did this get modded as flamebait? It's a real solution to a real problem (make sure all of your workers are in the same general time zone). Come on moderators, stop modding people down just because an answer doesn't sound politically correct.
(Now prove my point by modding me down as well.)