Managers need to throw the time clock out

Imagine unlimited paid vacation and sick leave, with no mandated office hours. Chaos, right? Not according to a handful of award-winning employers profiled in a new report on effective workplaces.

At MeetingMatrix International, a communications firm based in Portsmouth, N.H., employees have no defined work schedules, unlimited paid time off, and meetings are optional. How do they ever get any work done? That’s actually the only thing that matters: results.

MeetingMatrix executives point to longer customer support hours, increased sales during a down economy, and 100% retention as evidence that their focus on the end results — and not hours in the office — works.

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis, contributor

Full Story: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/09/how-flexible-work-actually-works/