Best Buy is de-structuring its corporate work policies. The spin:

The endeavor, called ROWE, for “results-only work environment,” seeks to demolish decades-old business dogma that equates physical presence with productivity. The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours… There are no schedules. No mandatory meetings. No impression-management hustles. Work is no longer a place where you go, but something you do.

Pretty cool. The long-term goal is to take this flexibility all the way down to the retail storefronts. Best Buy has even spun off a little consulting company, CultureRx, to help other companies make the same changes. I hope it works out for them. I suspect a good bit of this shift is generational. Younger workers want more breathing room. And its better to take a little risk to stay ahead of the curve when they’ve got Wal-Mart and Target hot on their heels.