Cost cutting lay-offs in the 1980s reduced the professional and managerial ranks leaving fewer people to get the job done.

The ROWE participants were allowed to freely determine when, where and how they worked—the only thing that mattered was that they got the job done.

Collaborators, advice-seekers, slackers and loners have different work styles, but each knows the work habits that help him or her to get the job done.