Recently I came across IBM’s ad of “Stop talking,start doing”.The content being a bunch of employees laying on floor and a surprised guy drops in and asks them what they are doing.The response he gets is “We are ideating”.
Corporate conditioning is addictive.Even if you do a lot of work through out the day but leave at sharp 5 pm,you feel a sense of guilt inside.This is because of the typical old corporate mindset of coming in early and leaving late to move up the ladder.What happens ultimately is you tend to hang around in office even way after the business hours even if there is zero work to be done.
This seems to be changing very quickly though.The concept of “ROWE” which stands for Results Only Work Environment blasts away the old mindset like this website.
The bottom line in a ROWE is that no one cares much about how many hours or how or where you work,the only concerning output is the deliverables produced which is very much like being an entrepreneurial employee [Yes,I made that term right now :)].
So,in a nutshell – doesnt matter how,where,when you work,just get it done so everyone is happy without being a corporate drone anymore.
As Peter Gibbons from the movie Office Space puts it :
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
Peace.