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They want “freedom from parents” or to “get outta house,” as indicated in free responses to a Crimson poll of SSP students administered last week...
Monitored by proctors who are undergraduates at Harvard College, students must follow basic rules—but the freedom they’re allowed is more than they might get at home or in another program...
...Best Buy's hybrid nature--half flexible, half 9 to 5--is stirring conflict too. Ressler and Thompson get desperate e-mails from a handful of ROWE employees--accustomed to freedom--who have moved to jobs in departments that still operate on traditional schedules. "We could have a counseling clinic up all day long," Thompson says. "They feel alone." On the other side, Denise LaMere, a Best Buy corporate strategist, has struggled to figure out how to prove herself in the new environment. "It made me very nervous," LaMere says. Without children, she once had an advantage--she could always...
...They felt it was almost inhumane," he says. Now these data-entry clerks and claims processors focus on how many forms they get through in a week, rather than when they do it. They still count their hours (Best Buy has to follow overtime rules), but they have more freedom to schedule their work around their families' needs...
...compensated in part based on how well they serve their clients--other departments that have legal issues--and they are not connected to any revenue-generating part of the business. Kirshbaum wonders if they will be criticized as unresponsive if they take off one afternoon. She admires the freedom the employees in the ROWE program seem to enjoy. She changed to a four-day schedule after the birth of her second child last year and struggles every day with the push of work and the pull of family. Still, she is not convinced that ROWE will work...