Comments on: ROWE: How Best Buy Smashed The Clock and Increased Productivity http://www.businesspundit.com/rowe-how-best-buy-smashed-the-clock-and-increased-productivity/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: laurence haughton http://www.businesspundit.com/rowe-how-best-buy-smashed-the-clock-and-increased-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-1777 laurence haughton Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:11:51 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2970#comment-1777 So that's why when I went to the Best Buy store yesterday (just after 10AM) it took 30 minutes for someone to come into the MP3 department. There were three of us customers all rolling our eyes and wondering where everybody was. Seriously this policy has lots to admire but even more to look at skeptically. This can be a recipe for leadership abdication. For example, What happens if the boss sets your goals so that they take 65 man hours to accomplish? So that’s why when I went to the Best Buy store yesterday (just after 10AM) it took 30 minutes for someone to come into the MP3 department. There were three of us customers all rolling our eyes and wondering where everybody was.

Seriously this policy has lots to admire but even more to look at skeptically. This can be a recipe for leadership abdication. For example, What happens if the boss sets your goals so that they take 65 man hours to accomplish?

]]> By: Lewis Green http://www.businesspundit.com/rowe-how-best-buy-smashed-the-clock-and-increased-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Lewis Green Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:32:08 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2970#comment-1776 Bravo Best Buy. What does it matter the number of hours one sits at their desk? In my experience, long hours usually was all a big game to see who could be last to leave. Unfortunately, those the employees were among the least productive but the most likely to be promoted. It's about productivity. That is what determines profits and great output. I often asked my direct reports who seemed to spend long hours at work, why it took them so long to get done what I thought should take far less time? Perhaps it was all the personal phone calls, e-mails, coffee breaks and sucking up that required so much time. Bravo Best Buy. What does it matter the number of hours one sits at their desk? In my experience, long hours usually was all a big game to see who could be last to leave. Unfortunately, those the employees were among the least productive but the most likely to be promoted.

It’s about productivity. That is what determines profits and great output. I often asked my direct reports who seemed to spend long hours at work, why it took them so long to get done what I thought should take far less time? Perhaps it was all the personal phone calls, e-mails, coffee breaks and sucking up that required so much time.

]]> By: Peter Mullison http://www.businesspundit.com/rowe-how-best-buy-smashed-the-clock-and-increased-productivity/comment-page-1/#comment-1775 Peter Mullison Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:57:41 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2970#comment-1775 I think Best Buy is doing a great thing. Giving employees greater latitude and using better ways to measure productivity can only help their bottom line. I hope other employers will read this and make changes in their organizations. Peter Mullison www.employmentlawcolorado.com I think Best Buy is doing a great thing. Giving employees greater latitude and using better ways to measure productivity can only help their bottom line. I hope other employers will read this and make changes in their organizations.

Peter Mullison
http://www.employmentlawcolorado.com

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