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I am AMAZED there were such dramatic changes in such a short time! And even more amazed that ROWE was revoked.

• at-fates-hands 10y ago
  It was revoked after the manager who got it in place left after rubbing a few executives the wrong way. He had a lot of other positive things he was trying to do (like implement agile on a staunch old school waterfall company) and after he left, a lot of developers felt it was upper managements way to get back at the developer team since they had increased quotas so high developers started leaving and production was falling or leveling off. It was an easy way for the executives to say, "See what ROWE got us? Production is down and turn over is increasing. See? This doesn't work and the developers are abusing it by working from home too much and missing their goals." It pissed a lot of people off when then revoked it and more people started quitting in droves - and people who had been there 10+ years. I got a good taste of what were the corporate politics at its worst.