Working Where and When You Want
My former beat partner Alyssa Rosenberg <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44987&oref=todaysnews">writes</a> at <em>Government Executive</em> that the Office of Personnel Management is launching a pilot project to test a new workplace flexibility program. The pilot, based on the results-only work environment, or ROWE, model created by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, will give 400 employees the freedom to decide where and when they work, as long as they meet high performance standards.
My former beat partner Alyssa Rosenberg writes at Government Executive that the Office of Personnel Management is launching a pilot project to test a new workplace flexibility program. The pilot, based on the results-only work environment, or ROWE, model created by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler, will give 400 employees the freedom to decide where and when they work, as long as they meet high performance standards.
OPM plans to test the model on employees at agency headquarters in Washington and at field offices in Pittsburgh and Boyers, Pa. The Pennsylvania workers process retirement paperwork, a task that is easy to measure, while headquarters employees will work in areas where productivity is more difficult to quantify, such as communications. This will allow OPM to assess how the pilot works across different occupations.
The federal government is leaps and bounds ahead of state and local governments in terms of having the technology to support new productivity and telework programs, Anne Gregory, a marketing program director for Intel, said last week. But does the technology and security at federal agencies go far enough to support a ROWE program? How will an agency's culture impact the effectiveness of a ROWE program?