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A 7 page paper that begins with some typical ideas for an ideal workplace. The essay then describes ROWE as the idea workplace. The paper explains how ROWE was initiated and its success at Best Buy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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increased to 45, 50 and even 60 hours per week. What is interesting about this trend is that decades of research had revealed that employees who work more than 40
hours per week become significantly less productive. Unions began pushing for the 40-hour work week in both the U.S. and the UK in the early 19th century and by
the end of the century, it had become the norm. The unions provided research to demonstrate that this was the most productive amount of time but managers had their own
research which confirmed this argument (Robinson, 2012). Henry Ford was one who embraced the eight-hour day and saw productivity soar. One of the consequences of working longer days and longer
weeks was an increase in industrial accidents, which is very costly (Robinson, 2012). People are tired after eight hours and they are tired after 40 hours. They need to rest
because they just become more and more tired after the 8 hours in a day and 40 hours in a week. This is as true for knowledge work as it
is for manual work. Further, productivity does not increase in a one-to-one ratio; if a worker works 50 percent more hours, he does not produce 50 percent more widgets or
ideas (Robinson, 2012). He may produce 20 or 25 percent more until the ratio becomes a negative figure. There is an exception to this rule. A study from the
Business Roundtable in the 1980s showed that a company could achieve short-term gains by increasing the work week to 60 or 70 hours for no more than a few weeks
if the goal was to meet a critical deadline. Even so, the output does not meet the input. In other words, if employees produce 50 widgets in 40 hours, they
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