Well... it's about time!

Full story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20061201/bs_bw/b4013001)
One afternoon last year, Chap Achen, who oversees online orders at Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY - News), shut down his computer, stood up from his desk, and announced that he was leaving for the day. It was around 2 p.m., and most of Achen's staff were slumped over their keyboards, deep in a post-lunch, LCD-lit trance. "See you tomorrow," said Achen. "I'm going to a matinee."
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Under normal circumstances, an early-afternoon departure would have been totally un-Achen. After all, this was a 37-year-old corporate comer whose wife laughs in his face when he utters the words "work-life balance." But at Best Buy's Minneapolis headquarters, similar incidents of strangeness were breaking out all over the ultramodern campus. In employee relations, Steve Hance had suddenly started going hunting on workdays, a Remington 12-gauge in one hand, a Verizon LG (NYSE:VZ - News) in the other. In the retail training department, e-learning specialist Mark Wells was spending his days bombing around the country following rocker Dave Matthews. Single mother Kelly McDevitt, an online promotions manager, started leaving at 2:30 p.m. to pick up her 11-year-old son Calvin from school. Scott Jauman, a Six Sigma black belt, began spending a third of his time at his Northwoods cabin.

This might reveal just how <i>un</i>productive the average 9-to-5er is, when someone can show up for an hour and get the day's work done. Then the bosses will realize how few employees they really need to get the job done, fire 90% of them, and force the rest to work at full productivity for eight hours.

Not to mention, Grove participation will plummet. <img src=http://lag9.com/biggrin.gif>

Most of the time, the work people have to do is so mind numbingly boring that it takes people 3 cappucinos and a BM before they can work up the nerve to slog through it. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon patting themselves on the back for actually getting it done.

People who have interesting jobs that are challenging but not impossible should be thankful for them.

Hehe this is the way my office went for the 2006 year, with some slight restrictions. Not only do I not have to worry about getting to the bank before it closes or scheduling time off for me friends wedding, I'll bend over backwards if the company asks me because I like the job so much.

With only 1 month left we are at 194% of our goal, nearly double. Needless to say it's going to stay this way.