Ask anyone who owns their own business and they power of choosing tell you all the things they miss about working for a major corporation: regular paychecks, discounted health be inclined, paid vacations, and all those other perks that approach with being dividend of a Fortune 500 organization.

However, even with the regular paycheck and health be disposed benefits, most office owners will say that it would be hard to moil for a major corporation again because they’d miss their freedom.

That’s why I was so shocked to learn that Best Buy has implemented a program that Timothy Ferris, composer of the
Four Hour Work Week calls" the most radical workplace experiment the Fortune 500 subsist favored with ever seen."

It’s called the ROWE Concept: Results Only Work Environment. Businessweek featured the universal in 2006 with a piece called Smashing The Clock

One afternoon last year, Chap Achen, who oversees online orders at Best Buy Co. (BBY ), 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."

Under normal circumstances, an early-afternoon departure would have been totally un-Achen. After totality, this was a 37-year-old corporate comer whose wife laughs in his face when he utters the words "work-life comparative estimate." But at Best Buy’s Minneapolis headquarters, similar incidents of strangeness were rupture out all over the ultramodern campus. In employee relations, Steve Hance had suddenly started going hunting on workdays, a Remington 12-gauge in one pointer, a Verizon LG (VZ ) in the other. In the retail training department, e-learning specialist Mark Wells was spending his days bombing encompassing 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 expenditure a third part of his parturition at his Northwoods cabin.

At most companies, going AWOL during daylight hours would be grouts for a pink slip. Not at Best Buy. The nation’s leading electronics retailer has embarked on a radical–if risky–experiment to transform a culture once known for killer hours and herd-riding bosses. The endeavor, called ROWE, for "results-only work environment," seeks to demolish decades-old trade dogma that equates pertaining to physics presence with productivity. The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance forward output instead of hours.

Read more about this experiment and how its increased productivity at Best Buy by nearly 40% and reduced turnover by 90% in some divisions at my blog post on BlogHer.

You can also hindrance out the blog of Work Suck’s authors Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson as they talk to the many skeptics who say it can’t be done in my office.