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Hennepin County, Minnesota, has taken the idea of a flexible work schedule to its logical extreme: the county is practicing what is called a results-only work environment, or ROWE, which gives everyone in a company the freedom to do their job when and where they want, as long as the work gets done.

This is clearly a good idea. After all, what could an employer possibly care about beyond results? And in Hennepin County, there is some initial evidence that ROWE has made things much more efficient. They used to have a two-week backlog of public support cases to process. Now that is down to five days.

A ROWE program would save employers money on everything from printing paper to electricity. If this seems risky, it is probably because employers think they need visual reassurance that people are actually doing work. Their real problem is, however, that they have failed to clearly define the "results" they care about.

http://www.good.is/post/minnesota-s-result-only-work-environment