Thanks to Lisa Takeuchi Cullen for this Q & A on http://TIME.com. We appreciate the word “kooky” (it’s an upgrade from “crazy”) and we also appreciate her asking the hard questions without deciding out of hand that ROWE can’t work.
As this book and this idea gets out into the world, we expect a certain amount of skepticism and resistance. We want people to be challenged by this idea. We want a healthy debate. If we’re ever going to achieve real work-life balance, then we need an honest discussion about why people are so unhappy with the traditional workplace.
Even if you don’t agree with ROWE, we hope that at least the ideas behind ROWE spark a real conversation about why work sucks. We can’t go on pretending that 8-to-5 in a cube with endless meetings is the best way to work. The world has radically changed in the past twenty years. It’s time for the culture of work to catch up.
